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  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  how much my opinion matters or would apply to future students, but here ... . Once Rush begins, different brothers are assigned to head events that ... , technically, you need to settle into just one or two fraternities through middle

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  won't teach you as much about the SATs, it's a good way to get you ... high enough to test out of the class, does that mean you are qualified to ... WHY MIT IS AMAZING (as if you really needed another reason)ME: This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  of it and once I was satisfied, go back to the experiencing it with no ... to Newport (much further north and w/ more totality), but still quite ... clouds, or simply to too much caffeine, and too little sleep. I pushed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  . Why? Because they don't really need to focus on marketing or anything ... DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse from Full House, was once the touring drummer for The Beach Boys? What

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  still need to take 6.033 and it just so happens to have a final. Anyhoo ... created a list of topics I need to cover and material I want to revise. For ... 't understand and what I need to revise, and prioritize those topics. For me, it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

   terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... , we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get ... . I don't particularly know if there's too much more to say in this post

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... , and classes don’t matter all that much anymore because I’m going to MIT ... be too much. I’m doing a [annotation note="through MIT’s program to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel ... Wednesday. My current strategy is to just shove everything into energy and ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline ... and not a ball, you actually have to transfer the glass onto another ... because those wooden tools start to burn and might catch fire if you hold

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis ... from it, and you need to remember to switch when you're moving between

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  have been a waste of the energy required to get to the top of the hill ... as I'd built up so much potential energy by climbing those bloody ... 's much easier to jog down than to jog up, so in about a minute and a half I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  . In Woody’s, we need to decide what to eat. After much deliberation, we ... initial concern about how much to get, but my advisor does his marvelous job ... eating to the previous evening mostly sleeping, and had pretty much eaten

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  write back, “Thanks, Becky! It's so nice to make human communication once ... to ensure that you will never fail because you spent too much time on a ... approximation that was much, much smaller than what I consider to be a kosher

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  don't need to. If you have to get around, hitch a ride with your ... schedule lessons, but you're told that you need to get your learner's permit ... things you need to do. Shift gears and press the gas pedal (nice and easy

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  schools such as MIT and Harvard who crash and burn due to personal issues ... only does he manage to earn exceptional grades in advanced placement and ... doesn't happen all at once," he said. Obropta manages to communicate with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  thing I would say to this is be careful; it is so, so easy to burn out ... has always been so much of trying to be something you're not, from just putting on too much makeup to joining a club to enhance your applications

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  demonstrated it once and encouraged her to just play with it. Daymé says that his outlook was very much along the lines of “if you burn it down, burn it down ... needed to “stop entertaining other options.” The fact that multiple

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  took a much needed trip to the Z to lift my frustrations), I've come to ... classes now, I need to take classes that genuinely interest me in order for ... "] shoutout to her for calming me down<3[/caption] Once we got past scary

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  , i didn't spend much time considering it. i didn't want to live in ... to meet people and check out their events. i'm a junior and a transfer ... the culture going. this means that i have even less mental energy to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021