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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  . Today I feel how you feel. I don't know if I can still pass the class with ... . Whether you get in or not, after decisions, listen to this song (or another ... important finals I've had in my life. -E   Keep you in the dark You

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where ... online, and I assure any aspiring scholars of MITese that you will find ... light in your room replaced or when you want permission to paint your room

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of which are linked above. Most are online; if you’re on campus the rest can be found in the MIT Libraries. Articles from The Tech ... Technology, which can be found in the MIT Libraries’ Institute Archives and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of ... . The process of making what you can from a situation doesn’t require a ... . Whatever it is you wanted: hold onto it as tightly as you can. The hard part

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  as you can imagine, people in ESP like figuring out logistics. We also ... the couch, in that sort of state after you've cried for a while but can ... were talking to. I understood what was meant by delegation and you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  He looked the devil in the eye, and said "You're looking well" The ... picture for her) So tell me, how do you win at blackjack? Steve's math ... Group") Ass. Homo. Group. Overheard in Stata: Yeah, you know, biology

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  approachable.  The labs tie-in the week’s lessons well, and you can see how each ... credit. you actually do stuff in 2.013, have much more control over what ... Chemistry II (1) A beautiful expansion on the concepts in 5.12, 5.13

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... seed in the plastic cup - we can plant roots in multiple places, and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  political field, in which a single problem can connect people across centuries ... triangles can always be further distributed in discrete chunks to form a ... piece A—to the square S in order to create a supershape M. We can add the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... art course or build huts in Peru, but if you left school because illness ... can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  hour, or (more usefully) a block per minute. From this, you can quickly ... good. And if you feel up to it, I hope you try making a "2014-12-13" playlist. You'll want to reflect on the application process in the future

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  people who can give you different perspectives on situations in your life ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... . Yes, take naps! But make sure you can wake up from them. That becomes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  ? card? whatever you call it, it was sturdy and well-designed The next day ... have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... undocumented people, immigrants, black people, brown people. Literally, you can

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  's 9:10 AM. You have a 9:30 AM class in Building 5. Can you make it to ... ). On some mornings, you can see a chain of very young children in Safety ... -affiliated housing"]off-campus,[/annotation] which you can weigh differently depending

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  only printed and not uploaded anywhere online because the file size was ... ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... Points full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can ... ? Where can you get cheap textbooks*? Your classmates and upperclassmen in ... MIT's challenges). Here's a few things to keep in mind as you begin

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  can swim in a pool, but you don't have the skills to be able to swim as ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... like an apple. The video is truly harrowing, but you can watch it on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  scolds you for closing it in a language you cannot identify. You can barely ... . Frobert ‘13 It’s your turn in Star Realms. You go to buy the Mech World, but ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016