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  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... because it allows me to view the student in a more appropriate context that ... Georgia Military College, in Milledgeville, Georgia. Etta is a straight-A

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  understood how such a rare and fleeting feeling it is. despite that, i think i ... . so this is an attempt to do so, i guess. i hope that reading this blog ... hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  made in high school. But I left. And that is it. Nothing is sacred. If ... classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a ... same album: So I left, that is it That’s my life, nothing is sacred I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you ... able to get above a C in this class. Normally I'd just tell myself that C

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... squeeze it into the margin. I hope you'll notice that I actually added a section labeled "fun." Basically I decided that if my to do list looks like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  during the "reading season." A reading day is a day that we admissions ... world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today ... , "Whoa, one of the girls in the third photo from the top is wearing a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  ), that I just took last semester, so it is all fresh in my mind. I don ... people in a subject that I love and am passionate about, and it reminded me ... about it. Although I am almost in a constant state of doing something

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  say. i do agree with them that leadership is something that can be ... in this class will help me come up with a topic that i'm willing to ... that's not all!!11! i do in fact still have extracurriculars to squeeze

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor ... you are? Is it a balance?  How do I apply to grad school? How do I ... go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  do believe that it is a modern parallel of Christ. No, I do not accept ... . I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so here's a ... performances, or to write lyrics that use Boo as a pronoun.) Do not use words

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  ). Juggling is fun. I hadn't gone in a while. I spent a lot of time playing with ... Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly ... inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det ... Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning ... here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force.

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  , teaching, volunteering. It’s not that “hard” in the sense that over time I’ve built up a ... learned. That's what I'm doing right now, writing this at a cafe near ... . Another person got in the elevator. It was a slow elevator, I suppose, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  , even if it is actually false, I wouldn't call that a lie. These would ... 'll do in industry, and about my life after college, I tell myself: I'm a competent person, hired for a reason. I'm learning things in my classes that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  a big group of new cheer recruits, but I am just thankful that today is a day completely free from obligations. So today I (like many of ... madly in love with me. Or something like that. At the moment, I'm pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , like my minor, is in writing. I’ve been getting a lot of emails reminding ... cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... her REX. We live in a 5-room, which means we have separate rooms that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  MIT tracking. What do I do? The Records Office is working hard, but please ... time about documents that are not showing on MyMIT. Do not send a second ... , how do I do that? If you need to update your application after you

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  MIT tracking. What do I do? The Records Office is working hard, but please ... time about documents that are not showing on MyMIT. Do not send a second ... , how do I do that? If you need to update your application after you

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  strenuous studies. Maybe that was why I wound up with a B in the class: because I never gave myself a break in that class, leading to numerous ... + looks exactly like an A-, which in turn looks like an A. That's great if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012