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

  

  quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  new Iron Man with Riri Williams.” This sentence, and the conversation ... (and/or don’t particularly follow Marvel), Chris was referring to the ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... naievete and fomo until i met chris, who deletes almost every email she

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims ... Missouri, and I enjoyed the peace, friendliness, and comfort that came with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  junior year, and I am twenty. There is something frighteningly final about ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so much static I hear whenever I ask myself this question, pounding and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  and my budding interest in pursuing computer science despite not having much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine ... well as the next steps, since I'm sure it's going to only transform and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... . Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped (alarming the desk worker) and dropped the envelope. I knew this book. I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an ... twelve hours and spanning a full calendar day. I was more than 9 ... state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although ... rejection letters so that I would be able to recognize mine immediately and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  —a combination of "autonomy," "self-reliance," and " ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... ETH, and all I needed to do was fill out some required forms and I would

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the ... idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  . Repeat. Next day. Repeat. My friends and I have been talking about lately how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what

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

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  public science and engineering magnet high school that runs an annual admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student

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

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  struggles, academically and professionally, and many know what it's like to ... that a professor can be a mentor and a listening ear and not just an instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... Attending MIT. MEETING PEOPLE AND DOING THINGS When exchanging phone numbers: save people’s names with how you met them and how you relationally know

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good, and amazing. And I feel good about these days, because I like the ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , right? Rumors and ‘leaks’ had been circulating all morning. We knew that ... sitting to my left, GRAs and some close friends scattered around. And so

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  . False. I found my limits - pushed them, broke them, flailed about, and ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... on less, and if it had, I would always wonder whether I could have done

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... talked about this proposal, and this need, at the next blogger meeting, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018