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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... prodigies when you don’t know how much they, too, have failed in the past, or even how much they fail at MIT and just don’t talk about it. In debate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... Verizon as I suggest, so in-calling is free. 8. Classes. No, really. I ... "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a ... , a boy in an MIT sweatshirt nervously fiddled with his water bottle

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  speech in (a free trial of) Final Cut Pro, which was the only video editing ... in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... consistent enthusiasm is difficult) into a fancy microphone, and painstakingly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way ... living on the third floor of the [annotation note="East Campus is a dorm

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... . Each opportunity was different from the others in how many hours I spent ... commitment] 40 hours (5 hours on Saturday, for 8 weeks)[tasks] Scratch is a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... , he has a lot of flexibility in his hours since all he needs is his ... Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  so much to say, but even writing in a journal seems difficult. all ... a loss of them and because i have so much to say. in a more detail ... said to me. i do not know how much of what i have said i now own, but in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  the grip Spotify Wrapped has on society is truly astounding. time to ... listening to Spotify constantly. this is not true because i am at the lower ... surprised i was first because i listen to a lot of Discover Weekly...  

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college, in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... because you enjoy sharing a human connection, that you want to give as much

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  along too much to figure out how to do calculus, which is a real problem ... musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  enter a university, much less a Masters program? No worries! Now you can ... citizens? You can do that online even if you’re six years old. How is ... Professor Eileen Scanlon from The Open University, told us how in another

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I ... dream early, a summer internship in Corporate America. I applied through

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  conducted on warm, calm, rain-free days. The problem is that it's March in New ... in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  + looks exactly like an A-, which in turn looks like an A. That's great if you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a ... -inscrutable concepts racked my brains to no end, had a few guest appearances in the 8

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  !). Your host will know how much time to allot for you to check in and meet ... people. That, in general, is a good strategy. Follow the cool people and ... + Events. There is now a whole guest blog post about it! Learn how to have a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  in the fall. My point is, your first semester is pretty much the ... classes and your tests and your p-sets, how much time everything is going to ... , feel free to ask in the comments (anonymously is fine) and I'll update

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  capable as a human being - GPA is in absolutely no way everything and it ... . One thing I really like about MIT is that there is a HASS (humanities ... minor in this. I love writing - maybe it could be more than a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016