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  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  . As has been explained a million times and will be a million more, MIT ... getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your ... , it was somewhere in the middle, and that couldn't be more clearly shown

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  stopping through the next weekend will still be informative, but you will ... part will be finding time. Can I continue pursuing the arts at MIT to < ... telethoning, in hopes that they'll be useful for some of the prefrosh we didn

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  because you know they'll be helpful to you one day in the future, but you ... of distress to save the day! Lastly, there are your dormmates who will ... ball in the halls These are the moments when I know I was meant to be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... you ought to be.  For the past few years, birthdays have also just been ... wear willingly to avoid the empty feeling of weightlessness. I’ve always

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  in the slightest because that will Interrupt My Rhythm and Ruin Everything. This is just me being a hopeless perfectionist. MIT has forced me ... of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  bio that are immutable; my birthplace will never not be Jamaica, and my ... instead of wielding it, and I will attempt to write the next paragraph ... -as-all-get-out love for brains means that people never fail to remember my major. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  on how the internet isn't all it's hyped up to be. excerpt from the ... .... Failing to anticipate how authoritarian governments would respond to the ... sometimes...surprisingly enough it's nice to not be sitting down all day. here

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  .) The professor said he was willing to make an exception but that the ... , here's a shout out to the Lego Lab for being cool enough to work with ... excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  coding it would be too difficult. coding a parser for the text of all the final fantasy 7 games turned out to be the [annotation note="it's really ... interesting and that i will go back to soon to prepare for the full swing of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  president of MIT) will also be there playing the trombone!"]our April 20th ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to ... (which I hope it will not), I will be slightly more prepared. Modern

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E ... changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  academic policies, which will be in place next year! Rona and I, both on that ... -frequently, will be remembered. You might take a whole class about some topic and ... , rather than the full text. Beyond that, it can be tricky to recognize what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out ... questions we have. Same goes for physics. The kind upperclassman will almost ... advice will probably be more directly related to what you need to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  that class? The work is tough, and never will relent. 8.022 makes ... fall behind spells doom That failing to keep up will seal my fate That if ... will let me be your queen Let me succeed, and bring on 5.13. Ode to 9

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  . All while hoping that going through the damage will all be worth it ... clue whether the next design will be any better than the one we had ... ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into

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

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  the Blogs Bad haiku will be Ben's legacy (wait 'til the fall...). "Bad ... for help. Often. Half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at any given moment. Way more than half of you will be in the bottom

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... because my team wouldn’t be able to continue working on the project ... would pretend to be reading a form, grab my desired item from the desk

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  sometime between May 1 and May 15 I will be doing the same again (albeit no ... failed for 21 times (...I succeeded on the 22nd try) I guess I don't have ... This coming semester will be my FINAL semester at MIT. FINAL FINAL FINAL

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  ... Will you be HAPPY (at least ~50% of the time)??? There's a reason why ... though. It would be NICE to get the PSET back BEFORE the test... not that ... at least 6 hours by now, by the time I call it quits at 3 it'll be 8

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  right across the street from my dorm. So I will miss being able to quickly ... Climbing that I failed to wake up for. I ended up going to see a talk by the ...   Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016