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  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  -sleep around 1am, I set every alarm in my room to an arbitrary time between 2 ... caffeine was in the tea, but I did not feel tired at all. If I wanted to go ... me to wait until daylight to read the relevant text in most of the

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

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  in the world once you get to know us." Well, it's true. Or at least ... by who applies and who decides to enroll. In other words, self ... kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  area and asked if I wanted to get dinner. Rejoicing that once again ... ability to make future decisions, either as well or, as in my case last ... 's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• 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

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  says. "It's not the same. If you are going to get a job in the United ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  . This is not to take away from the hard work that everyone puts in to get ... have help, you still have to put in the work.  If you get to the place ... “youngest Asian American to run for public office” and “Forbes 30 Under 30 in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too ... requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... were good, in contrast to some people I know who had bad first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when ... rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... February to April. For Spring HSSP, I was in charge of dealing with class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  trade in one set of rules to follow, you get another one in return. So ... 's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly ... tuning back out every once in a while to make sure I don't get hit by a car

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... with your hobbies to understand them. Every instructor I've met in CMS ... media, putting the comparative in Comparative Media Studies. I hope to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  ’s easy to get stuck in the MIT bubble because everything is on campus, but ... get to know members on a personal level. In the end, the people who know ... at her church who were. She started to learn more about D9s in middle

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• 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 / 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

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  while having only half the answers for the round in an attempt to get ... choose which dorms to live in. You live with people and you make memes ... /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  old iterations of the MIT Admissions website (back to pieces from 2000 ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in ... hours in the day. To my surprise, I felt lighter and more free to pursue ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014