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

  

  before tests? Student: Yes. [The student's response is vacuously true ... spends sleeping on pre-test nights.] Null set (noun): Usually used as an ... smaller segments. Ex: -Did you pass the swim test? -I did in fact swim four

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  will be a time when you test the water and get a feel of how your major ... , or another standardized test that you'll have to take to jump through ... real multiple choice test again (well, at MIT). MIT exams are thinking

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  how modern science interacts with our current environment and I also ... have been very memorable. [caption id="attachment_56676" align ... place on every Brass Rat I’ve seen, and a place on my list. [caption id

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I ... as saying that we admit people, not test scores, and that in any case

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents, struggling with issues ranging from which high school environments ... institution)? If you have, I’d love to hear about it in the comments section

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  . It’s tough, but I like a challenge. [caption id="attachment_88968 ... . 3. serving it for a spice competition (CPW event) [caption id ... needed for this trial. (Would also love to participate) Kano: vasss i would

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  years of urgent deadlines (Test! Lab of Doom! 4 PSETS! 2 Tests!), I seem

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  high honor, but it is one which I received."]play in the all ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... environment we lived in. We moved on with our lives. There are many fish in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for a test and walk out of it with your heart sinking, while ahead of ... underwater for all of eternity, and shot back up, breathing like I’d just run a ... they didn’t, I’d still be able to lap with them. My instructor was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  part, the one where MIT actually plays a really large role - that I hope ... in a long-term committed relationship with a man, I'd... rather other ... coming out to them anytime soon. I always imagined I’d do it out of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  generated three-line poems with a couple words in each line I’d be bound to ... human I'd ask them yes haikubot is now starting to do really really ... me, maybe i'll go sleep i think i will skip this test and do real

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  skip over the next section, but I thought I'd do a quick lesson for those ... ) doesn’t do well on a test, my heart sinks as though it were me getting ... around the world. I’d like to finish by asking you to do me a favor. Think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  play 3 games in one week, reuniting with opponents that we had already played (and beat) previously during the regular season. Here are the ... ’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  to regurgitate anything that you crammed for the test the night before ... come from a very competitive schooling system), but the playing ground

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  personally identify anyone) [caption id="attachment_99784" align="alignnone" width="768"] bacon quesadilla ramen[/caption]   [caption id ... of how things were playing out. I remember, during IAP (Independent

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week, disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  negligence w/r/t basic testing, not to mention the logistical curdles posed by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  place hurts. and then something goes right. and then you ace that test

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  quite in handy! the tier list  [caption id="attachment_103074" align ... squat racks, which could be useful for checking form. [caption id ... . [caption id="attachment_102806" align="alignnone" width="1000"] look at that

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  seemed like a real option before because I didn’t think I’d get accepted ... , played a pivotal role. She meticulously reviewed all my essays, helping me ... playing table tennis at Simmons, psetting with friends and staring at the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024