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• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... . Upperclassmen on her floor tried to tell her that she should get out and look at ... 're rejecting and get some free food. You're not expected to switch dorms, but at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  more than a bachelor's degree to get a chemistry- or biology ... are looking for work to get a feel for industry, then planning to return ... PhD to find, or it could need me to get right out of undergrad and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  honest, I'm becoming quite discouraged now. First I was too late to get ... they couldn't find enough people to make quorum and the team gets find if ... to go through and answer them all tonight... unless they were so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  figure out what I need to do to get into grad school, or if I even want to go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one ... ?  Should I have gone to a non-tech school?  I never see anyone pay to get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do this summer. i fall in the same traps when i think about what i want to ... have to think about this decision, i'm starting from scratch. i think it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... getting the chance to learn more about how other female engineers dealt with ... " focused more on how to get involved in the Linux community and less on how

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about 350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I, and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  ) So that's my week. I need to get back to 2.001 now, hopefully I can ... work to do (let me rephrase that. . . .AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH ... these blogs are for, right? These are supposed to give you an inside look

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  encouraged by the quality of the deferred applicants that we will get to ... deferred to regular action, and which students will be denied during this stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of ... get a rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your ... wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  somewhere dry or else it gets a really weird color to it, etc. 8. Trash bags ... get too tired to cook or order out eventually. It's surprisingly good ... 'll need to get steel wool at some point. It's a fun little game I play

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus ... 's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for ... , and Thursday would finally be the end of my stressful week. I’d get to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  put into it. And now I'm probably not going to get that. And last night ... EVER TRY EVER WHEN I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO GET EXTERNAL VALIDATION OF MY ... told me that whatever grade I get in this class: it's really not going to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  swimming on my stomach, I'm getting there. I won't have to worry about ... get paid for your work! I'm really lucky in that I get paid to have fun ... Engineering and Computer Science Over IAP, I'm trying to get out of debt. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  ’ll sometimes just get random flashbacks to absolutely random things that have ... to capitalize on that as much as I can. I would love to get good enough ... my life, and that's up to me to do. Get a tattoo. I literally have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  and get to know your fellow classmates? So please consider your memory ... , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... be tempted to break out the blink tag. CPW is an enormous event. It

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  yet (I'll get to it later, I'm about to go to sleep...), but basically ... Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  're getting closer! 10:45am: A quick walk through Lobby 7, soon to be the site ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  "Restistance is Fuschia"... Getting close to solving another puzzle (maybe "X ... a few more of my favorite puzzles of yore. But now, I must get back to ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005