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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  ending!) Anyway, the best advice I have for you is to get really excited ... background and ability to pay (why else would I get bullied in to sending in my ... . To get in, you must either be the next Newton, or filthy rich. Good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or climb to great scary heights to get over it, it will be worth it because ... , inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the ... . But! Remember, remember the Rule of November. Try not to get entangled ... . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  Bry Jordan got hers next and then I started to get mine. I scarfed the ... one person. So, a challenge to all you pre-frosh during CPW, let's get ... 'll try to get funding, but bring some money along in case I can't. It

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have ... feeling it will start to get more detailed as the week gets closer. Some ... to get local restaurants to either donate food or give us discounts

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... ? Somewhat consoled and way too hyped about getting into MIT to be feeling too ... training really forces you to get to know the world of film-making. For the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  to realize that its students need to get out more, so we actually have ... records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a ... . It's a great way to escape the MIT bubble and get some (literal) fresh

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  your demons than to write them away."]it's taken me days to even get ... me that is still so, so bitter that you get to move on with your life ... tw suicide mention and angst!! to the skeletons in my closet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three ... , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  get started with this entry, let me dust the cobwebs out of your head ... have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally ... Ring Delivery. First, some back story. MIT students all get their class

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  'getting things done' to this extent takes a great deal of complacency. half ... , i've decided to get my head out of my ass and give it a chance, and i ... all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  purchase meal tickets and how to get to Lobby 10, and shuffling through ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10 ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... Applying to things doesn't end after you come to MIT, and waiting

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... to finish an entire [annotation note="impossible - emily"]Pamela Reif

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... needed nothing from them at all, and I had let it get to me a bit too much ... has been well received. People listen to what I have to say, they value

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to ... wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I try to think of how I'm feeling, all I get is static in response ... school to get into a good high school and get good placements in classes. I do well in high school to get into a good college. I do well in college

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process ... things, I'm on top of things, because everything I need to do gets done and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... more practical note, if you get really sick at MIT (that is to say, not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  Hello 2024s. I'm about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted to tell you some things before I go: Exactly two years ago, I was approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020