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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  opinion piece in The Tech to complain. You get your Brass Rat. You joke ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a ... extremes. At the science extreme, you get brillant people who live in the theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader ... gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  out to get you. They’re so kind, in fact, that they give you an entire ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy ... to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... priceless. Yearbook photos just came in, and packages cost from $86 to about ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... began to arise. 2x4s usually come in 96 inch lengths unless you ... primary bottleneck with build because it requires a lot of hands to get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... chalk. (If only to finally get some sleep.) We all sometimes wish we could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  . It’s so easy to get FOMO - fear of missing out - nowadays because our ... enough introvert energy to spend a whole day in my room just reading ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  mindset. Previously, it has not been difficult to “get by”, as in to pass ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... yourself to stop the urge to write your results down and get the report over

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... ). This in turn leads to things like casual use of the n word by non ... people having strong feelings about how ‘easy’ it was for me to get into

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... stems from. I never thought that failing to get into MIT would mean

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... , or visually with coins and blocks. You also get to have a lot of fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start ... , not to mention in what form and when. True to form, however, Admissions

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... three lessons in my experience, equally applicable both to swimming and to life. First, get comfortable and acclimated; try not to panic. Second, if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  to two hundred responses in close to three days. So I say this to you ... you. If you do that, you're guaranteed to discover the blessing in ... to have applied in the first place. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  . Inevitably, this means that my parents have tried to get involved in every ... hoped to do in order to get me to where I needed to be. Embracing that ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017