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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  Light) almost exactly the size of the Pantheon in Rome. To get there from ... . Because of my astronomy expertise, I get to give talks for amateur astronomy ... , astronomy has been an avenue for getting to know my community better -- at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... Mashable writer Sarah Kessler. Startup Splash Networks wants to make selecting schools to send an application to easier. On Tuesday, the company is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• 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 ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to ... my [granted, pretty sharp] 10-year-old brother to understand this, even

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  didn’t spend slaving over psets was dedicated to getting up to all sorts ... Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get ... ’m determined to work up the motivation to get back into it, though! Killing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over ... mindset. Previously, it has not been difficult to “get by”, as in to pass ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on campus at a desk I didn’t skim through solutions, hoping I’d get

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... like to work on -- getting an orbiter to Venus is an interesting ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... get from night to night, you shrug and say one to ten hours, muttering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  /scanner to me. It's being renovated right now, and I really hope I'll get to ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... to see what I had forgotten, what shoelace was missing, what sock was hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  that. How did we let it get to that point? It’s not just the corporations ... flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  confused, because he was you not too long ago, and how to get you out of that ... advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it's important to find someone whose style benefits you the most, so you can get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night, really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... Afterward, I had 3 hours to clean my room, pack 2 weeks of clothes, and get

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  so I could get the extensions I needed to finish my work. Mental Health ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to ... there was no way I'd ever get up again if I went to bed. And yet I was ... Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007