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

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... and rapidly refuted her claims with a dazzling barrage of nicely ... consonant strings like 'dx' and 'dt' in permutations whose English

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

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

  

  , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and ... reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  this blog- topics to cover, questions to answer, stuff like that, and I ... them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I ... , and I personally try to link each entry to as many other entries as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it ... for the agonizing six weeks following October 31. And then, I got this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  (on a real stall), mockup review, final alpha prototype on stage.   ... presenters – “excitement,” “magic” and &ldquo ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  " and manifests in very real and tangible forms. She taught me a breathing ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... and we get out of bed We get dressed We clean up last night's mess And

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  moving out related errands. I wish I could sit down and have a real ... everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  could talk for hours about Homestuck and grilled tomatoes and calligraphy ... Splendor or Carcassonne, and if we get enough people we could play Modern Art. We could listen to music all afternoon, and I’ll tell you all about my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  started out taking 7.06, cell biology, and 6.854, advanced algorithms, the sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis ... , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  STUPID and BAD AT TIME MANAGEMENT, and no one comment on when this blog was published please and thank you"] (slightly belated) [/annotation] Halloween! I woke up today and ran into so many amazing costumes that I couldn't NOT

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  "]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... "] west campus is not included because i'm gonna be real, i think i only

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million ... the committee. Then a second reader (and sometimes a third) will read and write their own summaries. Then it will go to selection committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... pre-frosh and MIT students alike were sprawled on the floor building ... hat. Others took turns playing Mozart’s Turkish March and the Mario

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  feel like looking at the actual thing. And like many things, different ... visualized a banana, and I probably never will. I made the connection between this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  vision when it was so long ago and all the real, daily struggle has been ... ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as graduation ticks closer and closer. Right now, I’ve decided to dip my toes into

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  five videos (in reverse chronological order) and written some notes and thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most ... worthwhile watch and can be helpful if you're missing MIT like I am. Some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• 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 ... Script really doesn’t vibe with me, and thinking about asynchronicity and promises is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022