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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , but does not[annotation note="in particular, it is not immediately clear ... include packing all of my stuff and getting home safely, but it does sit ... practice, and how they might affect dorm culture in the long run. In the near

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  deferred. When I saw how many people were deferred, I figured it was MIT ... referring to how long waiting for decisions feels. Because I was fairly sure I ... expecting to be rejected later, so I didn’t think about it much. Long story

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  limit, but not reaching it, not getting past it. now, it truly does feel ... avoiding talking about it on the blogs all summer long, in perhaps a stalwart ... energy in a single month, and now i am paying for it. and all weekend long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . The details of the project change each year, but it's always ambitious ... ="the Eastside Party"]a big party[/annotation] on it as part of [annotation note ... stretched the length was actually longer than what we measured it to be. We

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being ... hasn't had Flour in so long, and I solemnly nod. For him it must've been ... another reason it's there?" "Well, you know how Charlie on the MTA stands

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

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

  

  respective majors. It is very much true, although the difficulty and pain does ... how expensive it is, and buy that juice you're holding anyways. Get a ... fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my

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

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ’t imagine how much it would terrify me if I read this sort of thing before applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It was fine, but then yesterday it died. It wasn't romantic. We were sad ... floor and its pieces flew across the room under different couches, as if

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  do we measure and how do we measure it? Is the trait thus measured ... students with a 750-800 was 15%, it does not mean that the chances of a given ... contours of where the light isn't. That's how our admissions data work. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting, excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no ... how it fits into the experiments you did in class. DO NOT LET THIS

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

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... know more about the bloggers, right?!?!) and I thought it would be cool

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... blog, for one thing. :) I don't know how many of you reading this are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... vision when it was so long ago and all the real, daily struggle has been ... image 1 pixel to the right? Does it even matter, when all I can envision

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  my offer of admission. It's been too long ago that I know I'm inventing ... knew how it would've ended, I wouldn't have joined in the first place ... how to process it. He proceeded as normal, which he thought was "the

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

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido, dark beer made richer with beaten eggs, and my uncle taught me how to ... , January 26 It is spring already, it is decided, the ground is damp &

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  response was “I wish my head was big enough to do this”. It didn’t take long ... could do it, then so can I.  I looked up how to conduct research at ... say otherwise. Finally, to reiterate:  No one does it alone, and many

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... ’t look competitive anymore, but it was because I knew I was going to lose ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon ... or Cambridge area you should know it's not because I'm just that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  choiceworthy is that which is chosen for its own sake. This may seem kind of notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider ... : Why do you want to be happy? B: Because I want to be happy. Contrast it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021