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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that ... exam, but a few exams along the way. I would’ve failed another class, if ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I ... called to do so as brothers and sisters of this world and I hope that in ... days that I find particularly pertinent - “When I was a boy and I would

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  entertaining and strategic, even if you end up losing every single round. I would ... embarrassment. "Oh, yeah, there's this gay rugby club in Boston that Ruth and I ... to Niagara Falls this weekend." Yeah, so I wouldn't say that in public

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... : "...It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to ... applications for MIT. One word I would use to describe application reading is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... .  Dance. I kind of want to try out for Dance Troupe??!! I think DT would be ... eventually ;)"]life in Japan[/annotation]7 months from now? What do I want my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... would revolve around science and engineering. I’ve definitely found it—I ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  updates and discuss what you’ll do in the coming week. I’ve been fortunate ... whether I would ever be able to hold down a 9-to-5. I would go to the office, and just sitting in the same room as my mentor would fill me with so

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first ... under construction since I started at MIT, and I’d often wonder what secrets those mysterious 90%-windowless cubes would hold. (Perhaps a prison

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world ... pure science in the class The Science Essay (which I highly recommend ... cost analysis due in the next 48 hours, neither of which I have started

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  being deferred or rejected in the Early Action pool. I watched as many of ... . In particular, I was very proud of the way the vast majority of you ... ones in which I get to dispense laughs or in which I get a chance to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  ! fanfic. in other words, I was incredibly unpopular in middle school ... and confusing, a deadly combination. in fact, I was so stressed about ... : the two psets stashed in my purse :([/caption] the next day, I dropped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  blogger would be kind of overkill? I really love the whole concept of the ... , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks ... commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live ... .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus ... information session that historically, this hasn't always been the case. Back in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  apologize for the inconvenience. I thought that would be less terrifying coming from me the day before instead of in the morning when you fired up ... completed. Go ahead and sleep in, read a book, watch some cartoons, finish

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  . If you'll recall where we left off, I was in the the hotel room after ... is when I was able to shoot. I shot in the first air pistol round of ... around and it turned out that I would get to shoot again. Now, there's no

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in ... , there was a place where I could finally breathe. A page in my notes app

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms ... drop your own techniques in the comments :)   Reading oh man, i ... friends, which i am not. so, now that i'm in the midst of social distancing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  Taiwan students are generally more lacking in this area." (me: ??? I would ... MIT EC in Taipei). I'll try my best to translate/capture the most ... monsters...if I talk to them, they would feel like I'm retarded." 4:34 to 4

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... would be respected as an adult’s--that is, that I would be trusted to work ... is what has happened. I have felt junior in experience, but not junior

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015