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• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  . I mean, I'm writing this at 2 AM (3 AM now) after speedrunning my 18.02 and 5.111 psets earlier today (thank god for TSR^2 and office hours

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  passed 2 out of 5 attempted classes, and honestly it should have been 1. So ... -than-amazing stats. I failed all but 2 tests this semester. That’s a 22% pass rate. I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  tests I took here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate – 50% complete ... archery in Q2. I wasn't very good at it, and I miss [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  . [carousel image1="58212" image2="58211" image3="58210" image4="58209" /] Other ... , because I brought eight. [carousel image1="58215" image2="58213" image3

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... Stud2 (the floor with the food court) to help fix my broken code. In the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  placed "somewhere in between Spanish 2 and 3." I then opted to take Spanish 3, try it for a week, and if it's too difficult, drop into Spanish 2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... 're not that interesting to talk about. 2. Offer various unrelated ideas

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  ! ++ accessibility Replayability: 2/10. I really would rather not replay this game ... replay a few of them, but that's not as satisfying. Music: 2/10. Honestly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  = 6/2  Loneliness = 8/0 Overall Well-Being = 4.06/7.63  Note that the ... own terms. Week 2: Misconceptions About Happiness This section launches

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high ... than emo Tumblr girl aesthetics. [carousel image1="52585" image2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  valedictorian > 750 on 2 sat subject tests (chem, world history) cross ... . a month ago, the day i wrote this, we played uncharted 2, which helped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  you think you need, usually 2x the amount, because somehow at least for ... .    [STEP 2] TRAIN FOR BATTLE Strategy without tactics is the slowest

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  in some system of pressing 1 for “yes” or 2 for “no”. This system ... things. It’s therefore difficult to describe (this is why I’m Course 2

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  technologies do not work in isolation -- In the 2016 election, 2.2 million Black

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  take up to 20 hours every week. Some core major classes, such as 2.009 for Course 2 - Mechanical Engineering can take 40+ hours a week. Some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  organs) and letting them die (by pulling the switch). 2)Killing the ... -frightened person could similarly attack (2) by analogous argument: that there is no

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made with a 2-liter seltzer water bottle, some foam core board, a hot glue gun ... pessimistic ponderings, that meant something. A year ago, running a 10K (6.2

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  -minute walk from Random, and then I get home and crash. 2:00 pm: I wake up ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  I got the urge to write this short story about 2 days ago. Then, I decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... . ***** The idea for this story came to me 2 days ago after a shower. I knew

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  Internet for logistical questions before you ask me. 2) When I receive ... --I always do better in semester 2. I'll be going to more study sessions and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013