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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... says. "It's not the same. If you are going to get a job in the United

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  -sleep around 1am, I set every alarm in my room to an arbitrary time between 2 ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go ... me to wait until daylight to read the relevant text in most of the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  In order to increase our chances of getting a good referral, we ... .279, and hopefully getting in touch with more 15-1's to talk to them about ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... family and high school prepare people poorly in this regard, largely due to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  content), I finally get around to completing it. With everything in place in ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to ... I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword ... : how to not burn yourself Reach toward hot things (or potentially hot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... ability to make future decisions, either as well or, as in my case last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  “getting in” to the point that it somehow became the center of my daily ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  who had placed in the Intel Science Fair. I looked up how to win ... . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... have help, you still have to put in the work.  If you get to the place

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... 'll explain this in analogy to how movies are made. We can divide the Hunt into ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... '22, were teaching How to Stay Awake in a Classical Music Concert. For ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to wear our Danger Third Rail (how 3E is affectionately referred to) t

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... about how to make my participation fun. Then I thought, well, why shouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  , I didn’t want to get my hopes up about getting in. In hindsight, I ... -experiencing the awe of “how in the world did I get in”, the hope that I had for what ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... trade in one set of rules to follow, you get another one in return. So ... 's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019