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

  

  penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike ... tears. Perhaps there was a time when my brain's toolbox included a robust ... : Person A: Pass the salt, please. Person B: Is your request a function of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  little exercise. It's a timesaver, too, since my morning workout is wrapped ... or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... might be thinking: biking in a city? Why is this deeply psychotic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  , the Marlar Lounge is a second home to me - I go there every week for the ... process as long as possible. You can do that without losing flavor because ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . Their difficulty can be so asymmetrical. You spend ten hours stuck on a ... can swim? Well if you shoved me into a deep pool, I’d probably drown on ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... small depending on who you ask. And if a major is big, it doesn ... your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  is, is called the shaft. when you throw something down there, you shaft ... prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... , is that for those of you who think being deferred is a kick in the face ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... there is not anything that you are genuinely interested in, then you ... admission, (even though there isn’t one).  This is MIT after all.  We love

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination ... future is this place where we have zero control over what can happen to us ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  make sense that I should be there. That often doesn't happen, as you will ... ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... is right now), and people usually become a lot more hosed, so you have ... been a whirlwind and there are moments where I feel like I haven't truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... already have a blog, to prove that you are able to churn out pieces of ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  just wanted to let you know that you can have a lot of fun and still get ... . COME VISIT US BENNO!) You can just check out the link above, or read ... . Please feel free to be honest... if you think that my sort of person can

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  you can guess; however, there’s also a chance that the game ends before ... you against it: the game is actively designed to sow discord. There was ... You might have read Kathleen’s earlier blog posts (one, two) about a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  what's right in front of us. There are doh! shots on the range, where you ... Adams, chapter 6 This post is shameless. There haven’t been very many ... ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  one is comfort. It's a feeling that you get when you believe things will ... knowledge that you won't experience it for a while. There's aching, and ... , is another feeling, one I don't have a word for. Five. There's some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive ... .02[/annotation], [annotation note="Both classes in a semester plus January. If you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  ’s just an F until you fix it. Luckily, there is a third (more reasonable) option, that just involves a [annotation note="as much planning as you can ... .[/annotation] Here at MIT, there is a system in place called Excused Absences, or, an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do ... ’m quite dizzy with anticipation . . . Or is it the wind? There really is a ... isn't fiction: this is Earthrise, a view of the Earth rising from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014