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  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and eat a little something before heading out to get to Stuyvesant for an 8 ... get to all the schools we'd like to. But one thing is clear from talking

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  really engaged in my education during high school. Yet you get to college ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to ... major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... , whatever. I’m gonna get back to work.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... -in-training, I wanted to get an expert's opinion on the project. So, I went to ... - so I'm going to leave her with you. Anna, get Josh's opinion, then you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  of people roaming Boston together, while I was still trying to get my ... enough to cover a Dunkin’ run, but I can get seats to a baseball game for ... same things as you. For me, this has included getting to play with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  't get close to guessing how long the website would last. Consider another ... than I give to, like how I go to SaveTFP and get free food, or how I ... , or how I'll go to International Students Association meetings to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... you get to Mexico from New York, you could have flown from London over ... getting into New York is so much harder; my Spanish flatmate is trying to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  problematic for my soft, smooth chains of Pockets. To protect against getting ... some kind of bird. (What a shame; it was just getting used to swimming ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the ... getting used to this, still clamored for the safe familiarity of home—of my ... long period spent indoors, dreams sometimes get big enough to climb out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  make sure you're preserving some emotional energy to get through your own ... process is tough for everyone and its hard for anyone to get through it ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a ... much and get off this train only to see those lines behind me and myself ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  suggesting to potential applicants that they should avoid trying to get ... match. Trying to get admitted, on the other hand, is essentially the exact ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  get to see you here in the fall! To those of you who didn't sleep at all ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  , or things that you didn't quite get to Conclusion and Future Work ... benefit of conferences is that you get to talk to them directly about it ... down to the deadline...it came right down to the deadline. Getting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  . I couldn’t get myself to finish the last remaining work I had due ... getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get ... time to get through Question 1 Part A of an assignment, lost to the point

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you ... are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy ... out to get you. They’re so kind, in fact, that they give you an entire ... get money from MIT to host cool events. Consequently, the choices are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  activities) and invite users to rate their chances of getting into certain ... . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... get over it? I don’t know. What I do know is the fact that I need to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020