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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... should remember not to beat myself up if I'm not exactly where I want to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  fixed in the future, they will be required to add safe, accessible bike ... the Scraper Bike movement in Oakland. If you haven't, you have to watch ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... being called foreign in a place I consider home, or about the differences ... any sense if I said it to someone at MIT. He also told me the story of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  if or when you come to MIT. Although this seminar was the only one that ... make the time commitment to them, as I'm taking (what I consider to be ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  eat the ice cream to celebrate; if I did not, I would eat the ice cream ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before ... fancy with the idea that it would be celebration if I was accepted or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be ... the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to ... can be used to practice for the SAT and ACT.   Name: Khan Academy

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... committed to being changed. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept ... come up with the advice when I need to. But if this was true, then how do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  many returners this time that the staff members need to be shunted off to ... take longer than four years to graduate. Maybe the someone will be you ... their names, if they want to tell me why they left (with the reassurance

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... so much that had to be done before the day-of. After teachers submit ... moving to where they needed to be on the day-of. That night, I made a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... , beat them down, and not allow yourself to be defined by the school you ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  to us if CPW is canceled or if it is just the CPW events with too many ... "]REX[/annotation]committee. Under some amount of wishful thinking, I apply to be co-chair of the ... RSI experience had offered me the first chance I had ever had to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  guarantees about if I’d be able to get it back. The choice between ... the sun rather than the shade. But then I wouldn’t be able to type as ... another institution. If I decide to work now, the door to a Ph.D. closes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... decided to marathon the Lord of the Rings films (extended edition, of course ... my life. I have yet to regret that decision. The movie was incredible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a ... to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I ... choice was a hard one – the entire time I was thinking, “what if they call

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... if my body is being pulled apart in different directions. yet at the ... if extracting my physical energy as a tax for my sin. the entire month

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  going to be different than the myriad of other competing essays? Too ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story ... or may not be interested in what you have to say. With the college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008