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  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  . Which isn't AT ALL to say that I dropped it because of that first guy, but ... well-versed in the format and intricacies of the material. At the same ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  . At the end of the day, you'll be better for it. Be the kind of person ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... little knowledge of what I'm doing. Mostly going off instinct, referencing ... strip every couple of posts, if I think of a joke or something.

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... . People at MIT don't compare GPAs (I didn't know any of my friends' GPAs ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  greater concentration of rain boots in greater variety of patterns than at ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  admissions. The two of us were sitting down at Rockin' Rogers enjoying ... becomes serious. I spend a lot of time at MIT very stressed, this semester ... other angsty 20-year-old emotion I can throw at them. Through all of it

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa ... 's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah ... blog for MIT admissions while actually at MIT...) I write much more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  the terrain diagram, many of the springs are at points of locally high ... I can say, at the end of the day, is that this project was just a ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  stick a master list of all my vlogs at the top of the page with some handy ... MIT-related requests (since showing generic life at MIT was one of my ... these videos back to "general life at MIT" instead of "Ceri R. talking out

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... minutes after class, one of the Pre-Calc kids was at the board, while I sat ... teacher side of things: I go to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30. I improvise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... bag on the sidewalk of the LA Convention Center at 0400 in the morning ... sings at the top of her lungs, and, yes, my daughter's happy going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of Sublime Text, trying to hammer out code. Hours staring at my text editor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... places at MIT and make new friends. Don’t stop at the first impression

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  ’re playing with your upper limits. A lot of people don’t rejected at all; they ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  them from Mr. Neha constantly throughout the year. At the beginning of ... you'll need to either bring it home or store it at the end of the year ... functionality of a desktop with the portability of a laptop! Starting at $1999

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  . So, instead of attaching each leg one at a time, and having the last ... whole thing together at once. I recruited some of my excellent roommates ... together! One of the best moments was right at the end. I had it all, it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  usually at the end of the semester, occasionally mid-semester for half ... do when Life’s Coming At You FAST"]little bit of planning ... didn’t think of the class at all. I spent a lot of this time period

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020