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

  

  snow today, it didn't. In December. If you live in the northeast, that ... know whether you're in. Right now. But that's not good for you, let alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  about the lessons you can glean from his story, particularly around joyful ... engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the ... maybe the best send off to you (especially to you aspiring scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  , not even me, can give you an accurate chance at MIT! What I said then ... forum, not even me, can give you a meaningful chance at MIT. Why? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  asked, "Why throw something away when you can tell a story about it ... Milk's application (with permission) below; you can also download it ... . If you've never met the Milk, then you should read Vincent's biography

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these ... you make, or strive to make the smartest decisions you can in any ... as often as possible. The worst thing you can do in college - and in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  and fitting in, freshman year can be overwhelming socially. Especially ... does not make you anti-social. The tricky part is putting yourself in ... architecture to media/journalism.  But of course, you can’t possibly always know

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... , starting at midnight Thursday night (or early Friday morning, if you prefer ... , hypercubes, the Black Death, and more, taught in a fun/crazy style by MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .02[/annotation], [annotation note="Both classes in a semester plus January. If you ... and back on again. So I go to the #1 tech school in the world but I can ... its true. I can sit in a room with [annotation note="heck, even a

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

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... world time, will actually count as NEGATIVE TIME. SEE WHAT STATISTICS CAN ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  pepper are the basics. Garlic always works, though you can also throw whole cloves in the pan if you like those. Onion can be added in the form of ... again in the evening. I like oatmeal. You can add walnuts and bananas and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense ... respectively. And that was really reflected this weekend in the difference ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  pertinent. You just can't afford to waste words speaking in vague terms that ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... , always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  iron look like play dough. You can squash a workpiece in seconds when it ... can see in my drawings, the dragon hilt is quite sculptural, but also ... .096: Architectural Ironwork, a class which not only counts as both 2-A credit and HASS

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  thinking of majoring in? Person: Sorry, can you repeat that? Me: What course are you thinking of majoring in? Person (didn’t hear me the second ... tell me where the final clue lay. Can you figure it out with the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  displacement I can’t quite explain—like whatever was cycling around me in MIT has ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Diarios de Madrid: Semana 1 Cosas de Mi Primera Semana

  

  't know why in Spain they refer to cards as carné instead of tarjeta for ... Hola! Estoy en España porque estoy tomando una clase que se llama ... y estudiamos sobre la literatura de España, con un enfoque en los

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways ... made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine ... space, you can do most anything: I’ve taken naps on the couches, grabbed ... who are registered at MIT. You can gain tap access to the Cheney Room by

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024