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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Meet-Up. Just this week, I used it to set up a get-together in New York ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Physics, that I would get to the last problem set that I would ever turn in ... , it was like 12 AM, and I was going to get a B in the class no matter ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of ... ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  know you all are going to go here), then you should really get to know ... , but don't worry! We're here to help. And you may be wondering who WE ... ; Without further ado:   16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation ... ’m somewhere between emotionally numb, about to cry but can’t, and in intense ... just get this massive thing stuck in my chest whenever I think about it

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  “getting in” to the point that it somehow became the center of my daily ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  , I didn’t want to get my hopes up about getting in. In hindsight, I ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  wanting to get up. Of looking at your to-do list, seeing only three items in ... something, you need to be open to the possibility of getting cut. When you ... , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class ... you'll fall as soon as you try to get up and it'll hurt, and other times ... at it. *In fact, while Snively opted to play with snow indoors because

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ready to take off. I was keeping everyone waiting. Luckily, I made it in

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

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... of the library to look at the Boston skyline in the distance. The roof ... my dresser and handed those to him too. He wrapped his Legos in his

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

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

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify, and in some cases protect, the voices of these students who have to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... way related to differences in math ability, given that college ... participate in a series of tests “to measure the ability to put oneself in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments ... .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  little descriptions (in case you want to pick and choose which videos to ... to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get ... also pointed out to me in the comments that, upon skimming this blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015