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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , and on Tuesday the professor emailed me to “check in,” which has never ... . Then I soliloquized alone in my pod lounge, ate lunch on the way to lab ... -- like I had some rational thoughts earlier today [ie, in the pod lounge

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... question: What does MIT value more: diversity, or merit? In its uglier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified ... administered in English. There are no minimums, because, ironically, the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... college search process, newbies flood the boards with "chance" threads, in ... ? Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... prone to ants. 9:43 AM: Finding tupperware to put sugar in. 9:45 AM

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... .02[/annotation], [annotation note="Both classes in a semester plus January. If you ... kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... . In case you haven’t already heard the news, CPW, which is this weekend ... are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented ... . I’m doing it better than anyone else in the school.”   He did ... ’s words from the night before: “There are 12 million undocumented people in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  cool opportunities around campus. this email was in the last category ... pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their ... PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  huge tubs of Toscanini’s ice cream. Back in our original meeting room, we ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... off in a film on their own after you soak them, and cleaning is easy ... created in 1945, and intentionally made available in a 600-pound, 3,000-watt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... (complete with snapchat filter) has the answer. This project began in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... in one nonstop 20-hour spurt than in 40 hours of punctuated work time

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

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... ... one... The first bite was not that bad. Maybe the nerve endings in my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the five videos (in reverse chronological order) and written some notes and ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of ... and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016