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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  shows a lot of tough love, and like all institutions, it has several ... thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... at is English. Being good at failing means not being phased by it, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to ... concentrations. The university research community has embraced these challenges, with many faculty and students invested in finding energy solutions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  anomalous and supernatural objects and keep them hidden. In-universe, the ... polynomial function of a real variable, and the degree of  is , then  is the ... decades: more concerned about the state of the world and more interested in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  financial aid offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of ... welcome to apply. Please email us at [email protected] stating that ... . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  aid offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... . Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a Quest ... , and the email address that you used for your QuestBridge application
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  important institution in the scientific community, the global society, and the ... crazy things happened yesterday, and I totally blame/credit this whole ... , who is living the MIT dream and running Harvard into the ground

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and ... , and I live in the house now. This picture was taken at Susan Hockfield ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here: (sorry for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore spring here! Yet, despite all those years of dreaming and planning, none of ... degree slower, than graduate fast and always wonder….what would have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  talking about return offers, and it isn't that I don't want a return offer ... dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  United States to conduct information sessions. This week, there will be meetings in Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida; overall, we will visit 70 cities in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online "SAT quest," complete with custom practice problems, instructional videos, and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  Institute. But the real secret here is: upperclassman and alumni involvement ... institutions. Plus, we have a robust grad school and we live in a big city ... , tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  the United States, a Costa-Rican that studies business in Washington and ... MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re actually going! How

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  each other, but with MIT upperclassmen, and Institute staff members. We ... college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  ), admitted by two (both local state schools), and waitlisted at one. I got off ... twice (once to a law school, whose offer I declined, and once to CMS/W at MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at ... months, and 21 days"]minute.[/annotation] My blogger avatar hasn't changed by a single pixel, and even though I recognize her (me), it's like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester ... (for his birthday, we made a Whirlpool Galaxy out of cake, frosting, and ... the end of something makes it awesome) and Arlo to my left is making

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021