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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  shaky it took two tries to get the password right. And text suddenly ... specific essays. But getting to consciously choose to apply to UW-Madison, I ... “getting in” to the point that it somehow became the center of my daily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their ... applying to MIT, all of you who will be getting that life-changing decision

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... getting to go indoor skydiving with the frat brothers. A dozen freshmen and ... prepared a resume, used MIT’s career office to get feedback on it, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  -shirt. You don’t remember getting this shirt. You decide to look up the company ... smoking. Not trying to get in the building.” You look down. You’re wearing a ... . You’ve been inside since 11am, trying to get your circuit to generate

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  get to the point where I am now -- where the mirrors I look into are ... people get the chance to speak, I guess? Like, bisexual erasure is real ... queer. It’s just that, when you have the privilege of getting to spend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... Watertown or Waltham, I’ll get to experience more of them. Alas, I don’t think ... crosses the river. The museum (which MIT students get free admission to!) is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... Senior Video.)[/caption] Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school ... failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  , I didn’t want to get my hopes up about getting in. In hindsight, I ... getting to watch current undergrads learn to appreciate the same things I ... . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... 2024 to get to know BC since the Class of 2023 might be barred from ever ... able to get BC shirts! Here's the design: [caption id="attachment_53779

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... get to build and solidify connections that will last way past graduation ... class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it.” → I had to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how ... holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get ... , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... an important thing. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get through ... right now. Sure, I tell myself that I’m going to get four years’ worth of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'm running errands in california, like going to the bank and getting my mom ... ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... to the person staffing it, and say what we wanted. It was nice getting ... , see you again tomorrow! It felt so good to get to interact with someone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022