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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... class readings, I managed to get through Michelle Obama’s Becoming ... , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... to my room. For several weeks I kept getting emails about the leaky ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... -body diagrams. I had caught myself gushing sob stories to my friends about how ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  outside. I’m trying to get nine hours of sleep a night, even if there’s work ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Cube knew where it was oriented, I still hadn’t figured out how to control its ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... college, I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation, but I wasn

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself ... ) pondered: How does the application fee waiver work? Do I have to wait until ... . (Well, not really - we all just convened to complain about how we could no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... might have been my intent when I tried to go to UCLA, because that’s how ... flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person, I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  my heart reverted back to my bed. I had almost forgotten how to read at ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to ... here much, but when I did, it was mostly just to admire how aesthetic it ... /scanner to me. It's being renovated right now, and I really hope I'll get to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  exit from and how to take appropriate precautions. For my next step I ... . Because of my astronomy expertise, I get to give talks for amateur astronomy ... school I asked my advisor how to tell the difference between something that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the ... because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm ... academic obligations seem to expand to fit the time allotted; I had a

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... try it sometime! If you have questions about how to get started just

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... line goes "how lucky am I to have something which makes saying goodbye so hard." How lucky am I to have people who make saying goodbye so hard. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... . It was not enough to get me through MIT. I enrolled as a graduate ... made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  . "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... hardest to get MIT Decision Day 2010 to come faster, I couldn't. Heck, it ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010