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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  reunion of sorts—Thursday night, you get to say hello and catch up with ... gathered around the TV to watch. The scavenger hunt isn't just about getting things done to get the answer to the puzzle—it's one of the few

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold ... write something. My secret mental goal was to try and get at least seven ... godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... footsteps at my rear, and I struggled to get up. More footsteps swarmed into ... school, open up Paint.NET, and get to work. It was a fun past time, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  " or "Leadership" that you get to put on your transcript. I'm not an ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... responded the same way we responded to all the questions about minimum SAT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was ... back up without me pressing start. I replied to emails,[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  gut wasn't churning with worry-anticipation. And so I decided to get a ... worked out that I'd get home with plenty of time to spare. As I started ... rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my ... conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for ... was, and I finally resolve to get up. Behind me on the fort a string of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  nights when I didn’t even want to think about walking across campus to get ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... , who loved and supported me and told me that if I wanted to get out, I ... , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... classes, they have to get approved, any materials have to be acquired ... experience talking to strangers and getting them to sign up to teach for Splash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... ’t be boring.  I’m overwhelmed and realizing the stress is getting to me ... to try, where I could get A’s learning most if not all of the content

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  sufficient to get me through secondary school and my undergraduate education. It was not enough to get me through MIT. I enrolled as a graduate ... made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  outside. I’m trying to get nine hours of sleep a night, even if there’s work ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... without writing. Time is not real, because I can close my eyes and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

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

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Electronics Lab at MIT So that's the first difference: to get the light going ... problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... . Things get heated.  Voices are raised.  We decide to adjourn the ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015