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• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  motivated, especially without a goal to aim towards after undergrad. No matter ... myself when my exam grades can't hit the class median no matter how much ... and over for three hours straight, with no improvement in sight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  ; Most distressingly: no one could find the Milk.  For those of you who ... expiration date. No one else used it, as they hadn’t purchased it. The ... , twice.    In the end, no Milk.    Theories have sprung up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  until 11 AM, and I have no required classes on Friday. Yet, I go to bed exhausted every night, and though I've learned to say "no" to many ... should be putting my foot down and saying no to everything. I should know

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  without any accountability. it felt at times that no one ever felt the ... catches photos i have memories of but no part in, i no longer feel bitter ... and cry every time i saw one of you. my safe spaces in school no longer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  no superior way to achieve fulfillment, no version of me that is more ... are equally valid then it no longer makes sense for me to judge people ... ’t interest me or are a bad influence on me, but there’s no sense in holding the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  , and I have no clue how many minutes it was, I put in three whole ... . Good enough that I ate it for two days. Does it look good? No, but who ... a recipe? No. Did I have any idea what I was doing? No. How much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  replacement for no charge. The replacement was scheduled to arrive that weekend ... 3 AM. I woke up, the next morning, to no alarm, at 9. I tried to go ... woke up, the next morning, to no alarm, at 8. Six. Last night I hopped

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  ) This is my first semester with no finals, so Dead Week marks the start of ... hard and then take an exam and have no tangible validation of your ... absolutely no motivation or intentions to study for the other ASEs whatsoever

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in ... ’s no winning or losing, or cheering from the sidelines every step of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  over. No more projects, no more psets, no more presentations, no more midterms, no more finals. That’s it. I’m done. Four down, zero more to go

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  to now, but I am settled at last. I think. No guarantees in life ... recognize no students when I visit my school. I may even forget how the first ... Education, I no longer employed an idealistic fantasy to coach my students

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  , and 18.03 Differential Equations). Since freshmen are on pass/no record ... transcripts, and most people had little to worry about no matter how unprepared they felt. Next semester, when the freshman class switches over to A/B/C/No

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  needs legs to stand up right? No s***, I thought. But how can I even ... at that moment, I had no idea what I was arguing for, what my project ... classmates and I all knew we had to absorb and many times challenge. No, this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  harder to measure. Does this mean that our process is no better than ... most stock pickers and fund managers basically do no better than random ... than random chance would predict? Result: mostly, no. Hypothesis false

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  . Teacher recommendations should only be written by the teacher and by no one ... (i.e. no middle school, and no basket weaving class). Ideally, this ... be categorized reasonably either way -- no worries), but most seem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  . Webb went first, did a fantastic job, and then, there was no avoiding it ... , “here goes. Tack turn. No big deal.” I pushed the rudder away and pulled ... , which meant I was no longer turning! This continued for 3 or 4 tries

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  ] said, 'No it's not, it's the best idea ever!' So the name stuck.” The ... . (No kidding.) 3.Launch rafts onto the Charles River around 6 pm on July ... - check Paddles attached- hang on, what paddles? I had no paddles. Luckily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  (really!), but I really have no better way to begin this so here goes: I ... forever. If you were doing original research in cancer which no one has done before and in which there are no "established answers," then what do you do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  I'm so grateful they never gave up on me. And with no further ado ... note: no matter how good you feel about your high school career, don ... and sweet. Remember, no matter how awesome you are, you're just one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am ... including both 5.07 and 5.13, but there's no avoiding that.) Some of you have ... , making it through freshman year with no previous experience in physics, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007