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  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally ... . Contrary to popular prefrosh belief, not every class at MIT assigns psets ... written copy showing your work, but at least you can know when you’ve solved

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be ... asked if they were working on the pset. They said yup, they were working ... mentioned that they'd been working on the pset every night since it came out

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  MIT, to study like nothing else. Antonym: to punt, or not do work ... commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from ... from Senior Haus. Refuse to look at or even think about work. Sunday, 12

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  great, because that means i get to do actual work and not management ... 've worn many hats with the student groups i've worked with, and i wouldn ... else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  this year. Although our application does not go live for another few ... 'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a ... pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  't know, trans generally means that your identified gender does not match ... welcoming place to work out what I was comfortable with and how I wanted to ... not everyone is very knowledgeable. While they are supportive, they may

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  ! ACTIVITY! LECTURE! WITTY! WOO!" Now?  "mow the lawn. go to work. clean stuff ... 've let your life go to hell, so boring!" Not so!  Life is actually pretty ... /from work (which, though less than desirable, is really helping me climb the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  people to append notes to each comment. What they're not terribly well ... , are exactly, and only, that: comments, not a conversation. Lots of ... 's commenting system, but to me that seemed like a bad choice. It excludes not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  -offs). Contrary to popular belief, MIT is not a dystopian wasteland devoid of art ... artistic and not around Boston and Cambridge. After all was said and done, I ... ancient, crusty sophomore. When not grooming my enormous silver beard, I

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones ... ! What I did not acquire at the MIT Career fair: A job. Yes, usually the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  get to see them for free. I only have to work one evening each month ... join? I work for the Night Committee as an usher. I collect movie ... heinous crime that he did not commit. I was a little skeptical of Keira

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  your MIT ID, your username and password may not work on decisions ... apologize; we've been working 7-day weeks since January reading all of your ... freshman admission (not transfer or graduate). Your intended entry year (as

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  this out and move on. Last IAP I spent almost all of the month working on ... to be on campus, but not have any formalized activities taking up all ... the work that good teachers must put into their preparations, because I

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No ... likes to admit people, not cardboard cutouts. Q. I heard MIT is super ... 's normal (and expected) that students will work together in groups to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... figure out how they work best. For me, coffee shops work quite well, for ... even if I were not admitted to MIT. I'd still like to read and receive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work ... several people. At least I know that I’m not alone. tick I’m fucking ... acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  't work out for me. I still regret not exploring more opportunities within ... wardrobe and this has not changed for the past two years. You get tired of ... because of last year's internship at PlayStation, I have still not acquired

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  working like new anyway...and then I did not attempt to install Ubuntu on it ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I ... which was cool because I was not about to use Windows 8. We had some

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight ... physics class and gives it a uniquely MIT twist called TEAL, which works for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking either. i am just saying this because i do not want anyone to worry). however, the boy started feeling bad. it was tired from working too hard

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024