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  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note ... , attending office hours, and getting outside help, i somehow managed to scrape ... that i wanted to get into but never really put a lot of time into. here

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being med school ready, the last outstanding class I had to take if I ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply for graduate school) or find research

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... wasn’t going to get accepted, I stopped being super formal in my update

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• 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

  

  realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni! Ultimately ... from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make

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

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take ... serve as the repository of courses that I likely won't get to fit into my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  you: I have no doubt that you will get through this time to the ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... , Professor Sive, indeed. 10:00pm: John '98 asks when I'm going to get around

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  you'll excuse me, I need to debug my Faulkner MATLAB script before I get ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

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

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  before you get to have any fun. Truth is I didn't enjoy my engineering ... still pretty psyched to get these. This is the moon: And lastly, the ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one. If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... get to touch the skills and knowledge that I spent 4 years cultivating ... activities that I enjoyed. Why did that have to change here? I needed to get

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For ... get the acronym to work"]VUVUZELA.[/annotation]We write up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  force I should apply through my legs to get me where I think I thought I ... and get chopped in half. Don’t let this happen to you. Finally, back up ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  to get me into medical schools, but also means that I always get a ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression ... a spot, unfortunately..." But you'll get used to it eventually. In ... waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... , 3E went to get waffles and then went back to next. Yesterday, we went

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... too much choice, so I set it aside until I could get to a point of ... application is (probably) not the place to get too experimental, or to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018