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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that ... . "The path to success doesn't open by eliminating failure. If you want to ... to eat shit when it does get served so I can move on and work towards

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but ... you're just glad you made it to the end—but nonetheless you've made it ... every tuesday gets put on hold because your problem set is due, or you're

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  17.5 minutes, and that you're probably too excited to sleep tonight ... asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a ... Dear EA applicant, You're almost there. It's Friday/13/13, so if

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  your benefit and doesn't contribute to your final grade. With that said ... ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... professor to talk about your work. Group Projects - A term long group

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... of difficulty. It's difficult enough where you're going to struggle ... to them every week. I highly, highly recommend taking 6.08 if you're

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had ... the white carpet, so we got to sink into the clean softness, get ... ’ll get to more thorough blogging, but for now, I must rush to write an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or ... 't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  inspires me to get my stuff together. I caught up on my work, I eat and sleep ... past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  that isn't even there get in your way. You want to be challenged more ... . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... , UROPs don't fall from the sky and land in your lap. You have to look into

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  the morning, I was applying to college. I lived in New York, I spent ... [annotation note="or as close to that as we're getting right now ... Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  useful to know off the top of your head when doing audio production; for ... frequencies outside that range I keep getting distracted by curiosity about ... problem sets, and while 6.864 was fun, I didn't get to actually implement

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  with the last frame missing. The instruction was to write a new ending ... Part One: Getting people together. Abstract. In our investigation of ... physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let's start from the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  than part of your life.For me, by the time I got up to go to class, I ... can do. That’s the whole point; the point is to know where your limits are, to understand the problems that you don’t get the first or second

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  great learning experience for me, and has allowed me to understand your ... , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the MIT experience unique. I've finally decided to get out my DSLR that ... seems and sounds so shiny and new, to the point where I couldn't possibly ... feeling of still being able to find new places and be pleasantly surprised

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  get extra sleep over the weekend and head off to class. Do you ever ... anything related to medicine gets me excited. That’s probably why I managed ... 'll try not to get too far ahead of myself and instead just enjoy every

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  return, is that you please let us know. Log in to your MyMIT account, and ... of waiting and not knowing, and want to get back to you as quickly as ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  the concert i arrived six hours early with some alumni to set up the new ... around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... concert, and four days isn’t enough notice to book another company so we

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to ... . I used my awesome new ladder to help me paint. It's telescopic ... , and since then have managed to actually organize and get this event to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009