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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  I was a high achiever since a young age just because I thought school by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... perfectionist, not until the past several years. Perfectionism and high

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  transcripts. So over this past week, many emails and many dollars later, we each ... released and it looks so good!  11 Good to 6 Stressful! Good wins! It's a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  essay, pset style questions, or past exam problems. The goal is to finish ... supervisions tend to have awkward staring matches where no one wins. Time will

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  , the most significant of which took place this past summer. SEVT ... , the team is gearing up to compete and is hoping to win the World Solar

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  As something of an absent blogger over the past few months, one of the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... shot at winning a prize, and at the end the two people to beat me walked

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  situation where a little bit of encouragement went a long way. This past ... knew. Something was happening. The guys win a race that at the start

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  No, this entry is not about Kelly Clarkson. It's about FIRST Robotics. This past weekend, I attended the Founder's Reception and Kickoff Event ... point of FIRST is not to win or lose, the point of FIRST is to develop all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you ... for days. I walked until the Japanese Ghost of Christmas Past walked up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  economics at Oxford. Two from MIT win Rhodes Scholarships November 22, 2008 ... treatment of diseases. This past summer, Gethers sought a way to continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  impressive slate of visitors over the past year - Melis recently blogged about ... still think Neil wins. (No offense to the guv'nor, of course.) Of course

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... in his 2004 Academy Award-winning film "Eternal Sunshine of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  considering applying, I checked out the bios of the past scholars and found them ... . Finally, each district chooses 2 students to win the award, and the winners

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last ... a mini photo essay of what's been going on over the past couple of

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  string quartet by Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer John Harbison. I'd say ... over the past term. In addition to writing a Theme and Variations in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  even applied for a fellowship that will (if I win it) pay me $45,000 a ... point, all the research skills she has honed over the past n years are all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  shining, birds were chirping, the Red Sox were winning, so, I figured, sure ... backtrack past Boston Common to Newbury Street, where we found a Starbucks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  start up in that field (see: genome sequencing). Aim for small wins first ... small wins early. Instead of the whole nuclear reactor, is there a subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  lodging to a foreign country of your choice. That sounds like a win-win-win ... country. Like all of these, it’s a win-win-win, in which you get HASS credit ... , so you know, win-win-win-win. We had an ambitious amount of traveling

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... embarrassment of grade-school Shorna straight from my past. I mentally chastised ... past CPW, one of my freshmen was on Next CPW Comm, and suggested a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  mit into my space, into a place separate from the past, yet you still ... giant "fuck you" to you. every win, every achievement, every award. it was ... have now are like night and day in comparison to the past. they know how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021