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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike ... was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high school English Lit. education in order to install diskloads of nerdly lingo

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of ... since coming to MIT. And they're all really great jobs. I work desk in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out of angst or in hopes of pity; I tell it to share my personal ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• 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…

  

  forward or backward at a particular moment. But that tends not to happen in ... I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

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

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  late engaged in deep conversation, or skipped studying to hang out with ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... major in Brain and Cognitive Science, wanted to become involved in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness ... have gotten to do some of the coolest stuff: go swimming in some of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  -semester classes. And, normally, you have to show up and actually take them, or ... control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ambition was to be an officer in the British army. Despite his repeated ... reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year ... context of “I wasn’t good enough to get in.” That’s not the right way to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math or chemistry through positive experiences with intro classes in high school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  explore MIT. A word to the wise: investing a lot of time in a hobby or ... . Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you ... totally awesome via People Sleeping In Libraries ...figure out what to do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I ... . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... has been stacked. I wake up and I go to an orientation event or take an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... 'd like to do some light studying or review for fun before MIT begins, then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track ... revisions). Date reindexing made it possible to visualize a weekly pattern in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve ... different voices in your application and try to immerse ourselves in your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• 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

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... such a reputation to accept you or not. I remember when I applied ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... , in the comments please let us know if you have other anecdotes to add ... about their children or where they were going or how to get where she was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010