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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  , I sadly don’t have the bandwidth to work with all of them, and hope ... I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... -zero integers a, b, and c. Well, it just ain't so. I mean, if the cold hard facts

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  . It was so beautiful I didn't want the plane to land. II. Almost ... Groopman, himself a Bostonian - and was burning to return to it and continue ... actually I went to MIT. And the man said, "Ahh," and I asked him, in return

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  which the hero goes it alone to kill the bad guys, and avenge those who ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... type 1 - we'll call her Stephanie - is the type of student who defines

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• 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 ... It's the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due ... worse, you feel that if he helps you, you'll owe him pset help in return

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  'm over the moon right now, this good thing just happened. But it is odd to ... . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the ... metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  get it treated. And so I made my way over to the Mount Auburn Hospital ... return to lectures the following week.) MGH was incredible. Everyone there ... concert[/annotation].) It’s okay to take the elevator I’m a big fan of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  71 or a 99, it will be exactly the same. If you receive a failing grade ... find yourself in (not just "am I smart enough to be in it"). Allow me to ... mostly be review -- Take it if you want, but study before and review the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  the Einstein Show called Genius during winter break, and it is funny to ... one small walk around campus before I return to the same class that ... made it both easy and exciting to follow. It falls under the overarching

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  the term, and it's been difficult to juggle that along with everything ... (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  deviation of the average of the square from the square of the average. No, it ... -opening experience on the days when I've drank enough coffee that it hasn't been an eye ... 're really gentle. (This is literally the extent to which we covered topology

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  in the class (first place went to my math rival). If they were busy ... harmonious if it were socially acceptable to confess one’s envy. Maybe that ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  -approval, and it offers good coverage if you need to go outside the network. It ... Medical Plan that every MIT undergrad gets automatically (call it the Basic ... opted to bet against long-tail probabilities and took the so-called High

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  the original instead, because it's better. If the cover's bad, then ... to forget. It feels all the more easy in places like MIT, where ... cool or impressive or smart. It really is an opportunity to talk about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  ? Should I even ask this question? What if it’s too stupid to ask, but I don’t know what it means so how am I supposed to do this pset if I don’t know ... ? Am I just bad at managing my time? Is it even possible to achieve the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  , and keychains, Software did several overhauls on the code to make it ... passing by clubs I find compelling but never had the bandwidth to join. I ... running of the event. They're both underclassmen, and it was awesome to see

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... are more likely to engage in the contract of learning Of course an 8 ... Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  So both Melis AND Laura beat me to it, but last night was the early ... just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the ... to a mixup with the insurance company; it should be up by next week, in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  appears to be banging its head into its textbook in despair!"), but the ... - six-mile run in the Z Center. 6 PM - Return to the lounge off the ... at 5th East the night before. It's right across the street, and walking

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007