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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful ... have my allegiance." C3PO: "To a splendid counterpart!" R2D2: "You can ... Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... to my subcloning. I add some of the DNA mix to a tube of bacteria, heat ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... few days later we went to a touchdown space on campus to plan it ... the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing ... a pass/no record grading system across the board. I have to admit that ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to ... . You don’t know how to get back down. You finish a problem set. There ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my ... language we now all speak so naturally. A language that we must learn to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my ... only exam I had to take. A project, I could push through, but an exam? We

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick ... as a part of his application to MIT, and had a YouTube channel

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  after she expressed her desire to join a sorority but was hesitant to join ... at MIT and was starting to accept that joining one wouldn’t be a ... to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , scrubbed diligently, transferred to the rinse bucket, then pegged to a ... how to use a washer and a dryer, and some tiny part of me was doubtful ... .m., I retired to the basement of Walker Memorial, where a bunch of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  to our math olympiad summer camp, back at home, in a week. i made a ... , but collectively, it was a poor choice to have said yes to so many ... a whole hour before i set my alarm, and could not go back to sleep. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a ... ). Online dating apps are a great way to expand your social circle beyond the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go ... .  Maybe, this is a better way to explain it: I am still trying to live up to ... will come as a relief to you. A realization of a goal you’ve had for half

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021