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  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... the destination." Learn to love the journey more than where you're going ... really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  rain cloud above your head persists. It's never enough to be unbearable ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you're ... season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  . Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models ... jumbled, causing the motors to zig-zag, or jump, or simply make grinding ... more stressful to be drawn into the all-consuming pit of 2.009 when your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  offhand comment I gave. Malingap is people making an effort to remember my ... good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  benefit from and contribute to this community, so to have the people in your ... might be used. Let me be frank. Any serious applicant to MIT has been ... opportunities and has made choices about how to use those opportunities. I won

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  ?). If you’re now wondering whether I’m about to throw some kind of ... trifecta covered, your score would be up to some combination of fate and the ... scores. This week’s episode on “Graphs That Will Make You Want To Cry

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  west and play to the east. After classes, you could head back to your ... to work on making up for lost time. Even before the ’93 dorm ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to ... air. Robert Vunabandi '20 thinks so, too. To make time for books, I ... to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  +/Hulu/Netflix if you're trying to take a study break kitchen with snacks free tea ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I ... .   This is nothing but reassuring to me. When I was considering going

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  highlight was "Treat your main bitch like lettuce," which I'm still trying to ... the monthly rent was high (relative to the other options). Sublet an ... in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  means that it’s difficult to make broad claims about having a single ... ’ll let you come to your own conclusions (and read other gems from the ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  throughout the night to make sure that everything was fine. There are emergency ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the ... seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats. Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... -night dining hall food to survive thrive. [carousel image1="107365" image2

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  giddy with elation, having just learned of your acceptance. Some of you ... at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ... choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... .   So let's discuss admissions data. First, I'd like to say that I ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011