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  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... my model. I will indeed be taking zero units at MIT next term, since I ... that I'll be taking negative 80 units the term after that, which should

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... enough for this school. I had thought this in the past, almost transferring ... poured into my classes, I still failed to grasp the concept. It was as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  I mentioned, can easily be replaced) then I will consider the project ... opened my eyes to the problems engineering alone will never be able to ... small drop in the ocean of what needs to be done, and which will hopefully

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  [2013] I will be pursuing a PhD in chemical engineering at Cornell. The ... will be working for their R&D branch which supports the Commercial ... program fake robots in a simulator…with the final competition being run on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the ... the book that was going to be covered in lecture, go through online ... lives more difficult than they need to be. I failed that test and it

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  fail and learn and grow into the person you want to be! Or don't, but ... of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible ... about the music I like and why I like it so much (that will hopefully see

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  out there just for you where you will strive and thrive and be the best version of you that you can be. And if that place isn't the place for you ... , no matter what the outcome is. You might be upset, but it isn't the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Technology". The school was explicitly for people who wanted to be mechanical ... elements studied in groups. To be fair, Mendeleev's version of the periodic ... (will eventually be combined with III Mining) VII Natural History (now 7

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  information session, without fail I am asked the same question. This question ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... on a slant route over the middle. Terrifying? Yes. Required to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  , the federal government. There will be times when the correct decision in a given situation is unclear, and there will be times where the ... buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... --thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and chemical kinetics--are the heart and ... recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in--the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  for who they are, then the applicants will ultimately be much better off in places where they will be appreciated, particularly if they have the ... be about. As an admissions officer, I recognize that while the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , scrubbed diligently, transferred to the rinse bucket, then pegged to a ... career I will have to the kind of place I will live. Ten years from now ... It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  more. A note to my future self, though: there will be reason to regret all this, if you fail to learn and change accordingly. So here I am, the ... how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  health to the extent that it helps you be a good biologist. You’re willing ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... completely new, and it felt good to be the nerdy one again. We walked through

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  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 ... Dear Class of 2010, This will be my last entry written specifically

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  , someone else will be failing at the same task. Every time you fail, someone ... attend, you will be a successful person." Anonymous '17 - "Aside from the ... yourself, and know that you will be successful and can change the world no

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  prepared to do the work at MIT, you will not be admitted, because we don ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... ? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011