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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  that you stick in and replace as necessary. There's no need to worry ... beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... with a problem, and solve it yourself. We'll be here if you need us!" It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  honest, I was pretty scared to write this blog post. So much so, that I ... state how much that experience meant to me. It was as if I had been ... cried. To art school, I got rejected once (I applied secretly and was

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  trains. Getting around is so easy. Now I drive all the time. You need to ... you out of the way because they need to be at places. I don't miss ... to take away the Bad Things by either cutting it out, burning it with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or ... that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... need to bring a pillow, since I have a couch you can sleep on. But ... in a lounge or something, and might need to bring a sleeping bag). Your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... fascinating stuff, definitely preferable to my summer spent burning through ... to me? Does it accurately reflect me? Does it convey everything

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  "Body Battery" - it's basically a measure of how much energy you have at ... damage on the dumpster fires. But sales were down and they needed to roll ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  on 006. But I don't need to. I'm satisfied with how much I'm learning ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been ... 't live in a vacuum, and it's stressful to waste energy and time on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards ... it what the deck needs right now? Does it work well with the cards you ... . Similarly, you only have a limited amount of energy to spend when it comes to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , you need to learn how to fall flat on your face. Despite the best ... figure out what's wrong and take steps to fix the problem, but much of the ... need to learn how to do is fail, but not let failure get you down. You

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  Our applicants come from all over the world and from many different educational backgrounds. You should choose a college that will offer rigorous academic coursework, but, more importantly, that will…
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  open their hearts the way Ben does, the world would be a much better ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  needed nothing from them at all, and I had let it get to me a bit too much ... loudly. "Why?" I asked. "Why does this happen to me?" And in these moments ... seems to follow? I can't keep my fucking mouth shut for once in my life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  Play Music served my needs and was super easy to use, all of my friends ... One way to kill procrastination is to find out how much time you spend on everything you do. Use this app to track your day and see how much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  reminding me a bit too much of our relationship. I only then started to pick ... cannot change into what we need them to be. Sometimes people are just, as ... Flame Kingdom. Despite her fire powers that seem to burn Finn, Finn is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  reminded me that I needed to come pick up my cute new cheerleading t ... for snickerdoodles at LaVerde's, and they needed to get baked -- I find ... grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  transfer to later dates. Meals are all-you-can-eat once you enter the dining ... remember that you’ll still need time to go to a grocery store for the ... Observer to help you choose the service you need. How to Feed Yourself (for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys ... could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to ... quality assurance and it's been wonderful to get back to coding. Burning the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013