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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous ... "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... across it in red. I am lucky to still be alive, having brought my spoon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  advertising how sweet it is that I get to pick my instructor). And it ... It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... is this handy dandy blog and live stream…. Go watch it! To summarize ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive ... of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible ... ]. I tried to argue that I could handle it and the assessment was a fluke

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

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... never thought I'd become committed to it. But though I hadn't ridden ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you ... officer. Nothing I say here is official policy. It's my interpretation of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  , and it is plenty friendly. As for Boston though, it might help to share a few anecdotes to give you a picture of what the city is like. And ... an idea of what to expect. Boston is a city, and it can be a little

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  discovering what it's like to work across time zones with a team that is mostly ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming ... went from this:to this: ...which is quite the leap. (The pictures are ... catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... -painted chipboard and is meant to be taken apart, overlaid on top of itself, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  it is to collaborate with peers, to mutually believe in outlandish ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... a Thing I think it’s somewhat silly to contend that there are

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to take, since my schedule for senior year is already so packed ... all times! It’s supposedly really similar to MIT’s 7.20J Human ... is also an excellent partner to my other two courses, Pathology and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  Reddit comment needs to be published here, so here it is, reproduced below ... is what happened to me, but I didn't figure it out until after I got ... stick with my family. Ugh. Oh, and to top it all off, the only hobbies I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  that in real life) Guys. Science is really, really cool. It's amazing ... getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster ... mainly academia orientated?" Now, the short answer to this question is yes ... you to think we're sketchy, 2) it's entirely possible that I'm the only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  requirement to graduate, but, you know, it is much easier to sit at home and eat ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... Things right now, if you haven't already. It is required reading for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014