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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  orientation, and one of the speakers asked, “How many of you thought high school ... school and work achievements. I talked to a lot of people whenever I was ... some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  /approachable instead of offering a blunt "What do you want" (or the even more common ... One of my biggest plights with MIT is how, since they kinda know that people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  the Stanford Graduate School of Business). Officially, this prize was ... effect of free pre-school on schooling and wages later in life the ... certain occupations or in school; these ways of avoiding service seemed to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  . 450 degrees is also okay. Add a generous amount of salt and pepper and ... degrees Fahrenheit. Pour about a cup of olive oil into a large bowl. Add a ... This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  main buildings that made up our school. One end of the hall had a large ... of the few times everyone could see everyone else in the school ... school half of us tried to flirt with). Outside of this, not much happened

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told ... one of the "prestigious" schools that accepted me. It's as if even the ... noticed that the beginnings of college math felt a lot like high school math

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real" degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... take while I could; I could always go to art school later, right

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity. There are just two more weeks of school before finals, and all of my ... my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  in Rapid Design and Fabrication of Small Homes), instant coffee in tow ... design exercises to get used to the concepts of user research and iteration ... how time flies.. G: Now at 4.110 (Design Across Scales)... [Picture of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,312 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2023. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,410 students. The Class of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  pop-up book portfolio that talked about all of my high school science ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school ... decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  sophomore year of high school of what the future had in store, I would've told ... software, a life of grad school. I dreamed of Los Angeles beaches, of London ... 471462f4073[/embed] I've been contemplating the future as of late. With

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  offer is right in front of you, and you're just carving away until you ... We are a week away from the point of no return: the Institute ... bunch of computer science data processing and visualization"]6.100B

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  spider-legged unit was found struggling in a closet at MIT's School of ... Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  to track my spending. Own 5 designer items by the end of the year ... Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror ... little New England town that you probably haven’t heard of. Enter freshman ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  context of your specific school system ... students to get in without AP classes etc. My school does not offer AP ... your school does not offer AP classes, you won't be penalized for not

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  doing Operating out of a design studio in Honolulu, they valued a creative ... from different living groups, activities, walks of life. Our “Tiger Team” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015