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

  

  and beloved professors at the institution. 8.01L met in the basement ... you could at MIT, to the dumbest class there was for the most ... problems, but some of these people have become my closest friends at MIT

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

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  ="attachment_84090" align="alignnone" width="300"] look at how 3-D the leaf is ... a heart with the bottle-opening tab at the crux of the heart. Getting ... watched [annotation note="props to whoever manages to consume tv at this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... could have made given what he knew at the time. I can’t fault past-me for ... sunday’s thread who reminded me of this quote"]“To love at all is to be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and ... at a lot of different styles of cuisine and experiment, you can get the ... , and marvel at your very adult portion of vegetables. [carousel image1

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  better in a quiet coffeeshop at noon, or maybe you work better in a huge ... train to visit friends at other East Coast schools or a flight to another ... climbing trees and bake dozens of cookies at 3am. 27) Changing majors is not

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  here doesn't mean you can't do everything you wanted to do at MIT. This ... ending--it's the beginning of a path you might not have meant to take at ... people here, everything at MIT has made my life worse. You've escaped

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  A month and a half ago, a 450-seat lecture hall at MIT filled with ... flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  am, at least to myself. I'm always telling myself that I was cheated ... have are videogames and Reddit. No extracurriculars at all. Hell, I don ... author Timur Sahin '11 and reflects his experiences living at MIT's Senior

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  show, and it blew. my. mind. I was amazed at how a children’s show could ... 't dubbed at all, and I think this had me watching shows that I definitely should not have been watching at 10/11 years old like The Vampire

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  traditionally stands precariously at the edge of a cliff. We don't really have ... 't try this at home) They are also in approximately the same pose as the ... tweezers, they manipulate glowing molten glass at the end of a blowpipe into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... : BU Expedition So at some point in the middle of the semester one of my ... had finals for and at some point I started to feel like a maniac who was

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . Some recent ones that might help are Life Changing Classes at MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... they have at MIT. Ironically, a friend from Caltech was similarly scared ... varied passions than ever before. I volunteered at a film festival, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon ... dragons you’ve already conquered over the past two decades. At least for me ... definitely does not mean rejection. I’ve met so many people here at MIT who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  Harley batting away at a roach, I cupped its remains and took it away as ... , only getting bits at a time. Then I had a thought. Sometimes when I eat ... thing tends to happen. At the image of eating a little bit of roach, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  buildings and an hour turns me from a genius into a fool: when I show up at 6 ... was 031).[/annotation]We both lived in EC but didn't know each other at ... people I didn't know at all felt called to text me back. Now, in person, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Student Center, and marveled at the Great Dome while standing in Killian ... get what you want. And to deal with whatever life throws at you, no ... depressed, angry, and saddened at myself, this failure, and how it could

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  looking at course catalogs, and they're all so interesting that I spent the ... with you all. We'll look at twelve catalogs, starting from the 1865 ... at catalogs every 10 years until we reach 2000–01. We'll end with some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  everyone is at their most hosed, most stressed, most sleep-depped - and yet ... semester at MIT: the tiny defeats, the small victories. Finals, again, sooner ... of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , fails to admit a lot of additional external factors which could be at play ... not a strictly complete description of the philosophy at hand; in fact ... earlier and the days got colder, my motivation drained, bit by bit, until at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021