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

  

  you are timelike separated from a reasonable hour for phone calls ... euphemism for a depressing lack of something. Ex. 1: I had the null set for ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  desk for them, I’ve seen that space can be limited. So, dorm gyms come ... close to Maseeh, where I live (it’s literally a straight line across the ... a really large and generally empty dance/yoga room, where I could

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  astrodynamics for the first time. I remember doing a 16.07 lab where we had to ... orbiter after taking samples from a planet or asteroid. Right now, I feel ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• 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 . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it ... ’s call it a tail—yeah, tail. Hey! I can really thrash it about pretty good

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I ... a case) Spotify (for background music) I split Safari and Sublime ... encounter it in the case (a town I've never seen an applicant from, an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for ... most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe

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

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... where I UROP in real life and Chris was once a research assistant. I had ... , I can imagine a black, female, mechanical engineer--because I’ve seen

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be focusing on making haikus, but I have a lot going on and I can't keep up. i ... more for all of you admitted students. yeah i know, i can edit: oops i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... from last year"]more times[/annotation] than I had opened a bottle, it

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

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  directions, for any amount of time, toward horizons whose features I can’t see from here. I can raise or raze my own mountains and plant my own ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  ; I can end up working at a job or researching for a while longer, and ... progress I always expected. I don’t feel like I’m in a position where I can ... road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  for those ten minutes. I’ve seen a dozen other sunsets from this bridge ... feeling of wonder for this place I've called home for so long. I spent a lot ... rather than above it like the 4 train, but I still keep my watching from a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  these paths. I can easily imagine a life where I become a grad student ... helped me figure out a lot about myself, and I can't thank you enough for ... could be a little bit warmer. I’ve been sitting outside the Stud for about

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I ... Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... MIT career, I dropped a course. There were a variety of reasons for ... last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... handle because I had a really weak background in calculus. For other ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... Victoria Secret was having for their collegiate Pink! line. They had a list

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009