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

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can ... [annotation note="Calculus 2 on steroids. More work for no extra credit, but you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  happily sleep for longer.I  never pulled an all-nighter during my time at ... late.  What is something that you take for granted?    Bryan: I ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  suddenly to 30-50%, but for the most part it still doesn't feel cutthroat ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  mailing list with the color of the underwear you are wearing. (For a more ... entire undergraduate population, which includes Burton-Conner. Reasons for emailing all undergraduates include event announcements for student groups

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  beautiful summer day in Boston[/caption] I stayed in Boston last summer. For ... East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other ... programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach ... a roach spawn point for about a week. Most of them however, were ... usual. But to my surprise, because he tends to play with his food before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  ’re playing it safe.” So be proud of yourself for facing those terrifying upper ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  best place in the universe. As for whether that’ll last, who knows? Maybe ... “So, you gonna play?” I said, raising an eyebrow expectantly at ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  : there are many more opportunities—for fun, for work, or both—than you have ... you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... for feeding yourself, setting your own curfew (or not), and choosing for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  , standing, from 33 feet away and then again from 50 feet away:   Finally ... target, and then we fired practice rounds for the Top Gun competition ... the border between black and white. We had five minutes for five rounds

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  right of way. Something about ennui. Someone asks for your wrist. Red ... the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... print it out. It is a diagram of the human nervous system in blue and red

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  different technical persuasions did for fun, until I came here. Let me ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a ... beguiles me into poring for hours over topics like subtle differences in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some ... in and of itself will get you in to MIT. For example: A few years ago ... reactor in his garage. Think about that for a second. Now, most students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn ... Suite to make ridiculous creations for fun. Here is the first GIF I ever ... Another thing I did for fun in high school was filming dumb movies and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... entire language for a regional accent. The language we learned didn ... voice to match his. "aight bet bet, thatll be $9.50" In reaching over to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  , because you would never use that ability; there would not even be words for color... And what if one day, a bright, red apple falls into your life ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 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 ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  trying to bring people together to do fun stuff. For example, a few days ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... of how things were playing out. I remember, during IAP (Independent

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  math books for fun. I remember owning this one book about mathematical magic tricks that I read and reread. It had dog ears on every other page ... impoverished. It bothers me because, for the longest time, I defined myself using

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  2, lived on the infamous Conner 2, played on the varsity field hockey ... tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014