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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... school, I'd go to the library and do work in this school, I'd go to sleep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , there are no credit restrictions. MIT will no longer offer Early ... the motion passed 95–12. Success! What did we do on CUP? At many CUP ... representatives, we asked questions and offered our own experiences to shape all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  experiences as a Fellow. Like I said, doing ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS. Have I ... the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... Adam (camera/lights) were doing or helped out wherever I could. Even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... really evaluate what I like about my major and what I want to do. Before I ... , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the ... idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical ... had helped me figure out what I wanted to do with my life, guided me to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  picks are offered admission. I beg, I plead, I make ridiculous promises ... , but honestly, I couldn't do this job if I disconnected myself from the ... , then really, why am I doing this at all? Others would disagree, but then

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... 't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... experienceexcept at night I'll go back to Berkeley and do my problem sets. So the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  forward to coming back and doing things. I'd guess that I was also on the ... it, and I wish I'd gotten a chance to do this earlier. Costuming and ... . But it felt so cool to do the hand movements when casting spells, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  sitting down to do the next physics pset. She offered to pset together, but ... anything and everything else, once you’re on one side you do not want to ever ... , most people do not need other people to understand that they themselves

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... . We all love a rags-to-riches story, and so do all the writers who ... response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger ... , cramming problem sets, meeting people, and doing activities, and then in the evening you don’t have enough energy to do anything anymore. But this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  do, and Chinatown is awesome for that. My memories of the district ... good-looking restaurants offering Asian foods in the area, with ... backgrounds, and so do the customers. Some are friendly, and others grim

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... former. Ex: Doctor: Do you sleep well at least half the time on nights

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  'm running out of clean clothes. The instructor says "What do you guys think?" and I am currently unable to think. Do I hear a weed-eater or a ... as I do. In this lecture, the instructor and TAs have left their

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were ... around the clock, doing homework, sleeping, whatever. Most were bloggers ... , MIKE YANG. DO YOU HAVE ANY KIDS? DO YOU??? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  a diverse range of exercises that all do different things. Yoga ... building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the ... who made it possible for me to do this. My landlady for giving me the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... on doing the issue, as it's past midnight and the issue is supposed to ... overcome by the desire to sleep, I am requested to do World and Nation (where

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  where do students interact with their professors outside of class?? Are ... that... I'm worried =( Do teachers even know your name? Yeah.. it's kind ... help. Mike has one question: I have one question: How do people normally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of stuff your brain *thinks* you can do. When you cram those years with stuff ... pains you've ached. The hard things you can do that you didn't even know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us ... do something together, and so puzzlehunts have a special place in my ... living now? and What's it like working for AoPS? and What do you feel about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022