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

  

  signing up for 6.100A, but quickly realized I would be better suited for 6 ... an entire timed coding exam with only the numbers 5 and 6 (I would go 6 ... learned a lot more than I think I would have had I never failed.  And this

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

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  because I was scared that I would be stuck there forever. But sometime ... about how each teacher I met that day had affected me, but there’s only so ... . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• 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…

  

  -percent-Asian high school would express a similar sentiment. I know that I have close ... read assembly code. I got better at building things. I learned how to ... of specializing to the extent that I would only be able to do one thing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  schedule meant I could obtain more money-yielding jobs. I added 1 to see how ... moon over dorm row. I knew exactly when the hypothetical cars would ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  ultimately guarantee admission. How would I know? Actually Stu and Matt and ... really, really flattered, the entry I wish everyone would read is More Than ... , I realized that the thousands of entries would now need to be retagged

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  's how I've felt, though: clunky, with a jumble of thoughts and fears and ... anger. It doesn't feel like me. I thought being away from MIT would start ... video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  First, questions answered: 1. Many people wondered aloud how I was ... amazing (and actually I'm not sure it would have been possible even if I did ... workload, and how it's a little on the crazy side. Yes. I am a double

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  : Learn the building numbers. I would still consider this one incomplete ... what I want to do with my life, how will I go about achieving it? Will I ... to MIT to find - that something which I would be willing to work on for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor ... . When I was taking 6.01, there was one day where I was hosed beyond belief

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  freshmen, without whom I would not have passed 18.03. ...at least, I think I ... I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton ... floor is "better" than another - as they're all so different - I feel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... (there’s a historical reason for this!), but I would never forego the ... roommate and I mentioned we lived in East Campus, people’s faces would often

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... having water? I remember putting down the phone and thinking about how ... advisors, talked to anyone who would listen. I told Alberto the story of Muti

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  they now, what do they do? And how far back could I go? Tracing the past ... the spring of 2000, which would be the semester before I started living ... the Simpsons floor (which I did!). At the time, our GRT, Maryann, would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  continued to disturb me: how can I be so different from my fellow physicists ... and told him that I would come back if I had another identity crisis. He ... I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  [/annotation] wasn't necessarily indicative of how big the group chat would be. Among ... . However, the proportion of positive to negative reacts didn't reflect how I ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  : what would I accomplish by head-butting this repeatedly? I jumped up ... ’s try this a different way.” I pulled out three coins. “How many is this ... by negative one.” Me: “Yes! Exactly.” Senior: “I don’t know how to do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time ... , and MIT would be hard to get into (duh). But at some point, I decided to ... years and how MIT could be a stepping stone in that direction. And while I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  life would have been like had I been born into a different century ... live, and I wanted to find out how they did so. [...] For this project ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  thinking about how I would approach these essays. Although nothing here is ... which department you put down on that blank (I don't know how many emails ... 't worry too much. For the "Creativity" essay, I would encourage you to look

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Tuesday morning, Dec 12, after the presentation I don’t know how to ... laundry Monday morning—and fall into this focus. I imagine it would be a lot ... really do not know how many days. I think it will keep increasing the more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023