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• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... DID YOU KNOW? ...what the most awkward thing in the whole entire world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... of the most important factors in their future. It's not stupid to feel ... rejected is how much the pity stings. In an instant everyone around me

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  pandemic, the most important components to demonstrate academic readiness in ... [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text ... officers, to exercise individual contextual discretion in each case. The word

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair ... try to go every week. It's also best if the TA that is staffed is your ... .033. This is one of the few resources that I'll swear by and continue to use

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  . =) Played in an Assasssins' Guild game, where I ended up trying to conquer the ... birthday explosion in Ben's office. And, most amazingly of all, I got to ... for scientific research, and you have to draw the line somewhere. All in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the ... look forward to every day. I think that’s important. In fact, the “small

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most ... identity. In addition, I want to study the roles writing can play outside of ... have contributed to your community, whether in your family, the classroom

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  Mind, but this is most often the Linguistics Department) while still ... bar that's tough enough to rip through its plastic packaging, as is the ... in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me ... . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock yourself in a nice room and do nothing but work. That's my plan for the day

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  just to keep my head above the water. 5.601 is more or less the same ... extra time to pour into my technicals. I was like, having the most ... I used to be really passionate about in high school -- which mostly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  to Paolo, actually, for the recipe. in a quirk of fate, Paolo is the B1 ... a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... year, but also that I want to apply to grad schools in the fall. I have a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  probably won't directly inform anything that I want to do in the future. Now ... .006[/annotation] in the fall, and [annotation note="Intro to Machine Learning"]6 ... to do with that department, but is instead housed through the MIT Quest

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production ... ’t be the only thing—seeing a movie in a theater is more immersive, and I ... to invert the character, to manifest their inside in the outer world

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  , so I was super-excited with the opportunity to take CMS.790, which is ... lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but ... thankfully Schnoogle is still up). So everyone in the room is going around

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . The first answer, of course, is to keep on keeping on. Keep doing well ... . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... minister 50 years ago today. He is responsible for much of whatever good

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT ... closest I’ve gotten to building anything is standing in the East Campus ... ’m preparing to double my collection at the Career Fair, which is apparently the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  families preside over moving cars. Over the plains, the sky is visible in all ... effortlessly. Maybe the answer is in setting the stage early. Here’s what I did ... comedy classics. Judging the characters but slightly hoping to be in their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  it in the most efficient way possible, to as many people as possible ... the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... [/caption] To follow the picture, [annotation note="perhaps the graphic is not as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  anything. I’m only in four classes, which is for the most part the standard ... . I am just so in my own head that this is the way it has to be because ... fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe ... making sure the ambulance is fully stocked, so I did the super long one to ... the ambulance.) After that, we got to sit around in the (really awesome

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006