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  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it ... blogger--Anna H. ‘14--posted this blog post to the admitted 2018s Facebook ... ’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having ... semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... and knowledge of the social class system. Some of their programs have ... And a lot more The CASE food insecurity team has Provided food care

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you ... address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• 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

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... things will be different in the future. What a lovely conclusion, right

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

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  of MIT students this fall, the characters talk about two types of depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to ... feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  , it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... that person with the drug-dealing rodent-faced roommate who embezzled ... . The living groups at MIT are as diverse at its students, so whether you

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the world can accommodate travel again. This post will be a list of the

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

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  'm writing this from the train on the way to work. Please heed my advice: When settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the grease does weird things. Anywho, on to the stuff that actually lets me

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and check the Orientation slack so you don't miss any of these deadlines. 2 ... doctor who could communicate in English or at least keep the prescription

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a ... Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  Happy New Year! Even though I'm nearsighted, this is the year for looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture ... 2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting ... it before. Mix the two together and you just get a really excitable and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... not caring as much. I don’t know if it’s the word I would use to describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the east side of campus have looser policies, and some other dorms on the ... mentioned that. Also, BC's policy is kind of a policy in name only. If the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box ... memories have been left to gather dust over the years. after i burned through ... started poking around the house. there were lots of goodies that were a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for ... the mashed potatoes,[annotation note="foreshadowing"]spent an abysmal

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on December 22 after my last final, drove home from the airport, and fell asleep

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... closet, playing a video game in my room. All the hangouts and trips and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023