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• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way ... application - or perhaps you're in the middle of writing yours for this season

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  't be surprised to hear that writing an essay or studying for a midterm ... different. That's all that I've been up to in this blink-of-an-eye of time ... % attention in endless zoom classes and to not lose my shit for no reason all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... 't include me in their follow forever. in a way, it was comforting to just read ... answers to or clearly understand, at least not for a long, long time. this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  a bar that each school has to clear in order to remain on your radar ... beyond in order to qualify for most schools. I’ll give you that. The ... themselves and begin to lose who they are. They start to think in terms of what

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I ... , the irony fell flat in my mind and to me it sounded like the perfect job ... to the question "Nat, what are you doing this summer?". I'm working in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this ... grandfather or me. When the dust settles, you'll need to help your child make

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  with frogs inside. Or at least that's what I have chosen to believe. So I ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... room to my bed in Burton-Conner. It took me over 5 minutes to spell the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  to reddish something-or-other. You can't even make out the sidewalks ... are realizing what it means to be in the center of all this vibrant ... problems in math class. Or different chemistry problems in chemistry class

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his ... anything, if you want to get in? Extra-curriculars are pretty important. You ... one of the admissions officers, who might be able to put you in touch

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  statement is correct in that once you've proven yourself to be academically ... : "I could've sworn that I've seen a photo entry in your blog, Ben, or ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... thinking about this actually for the last few years, perhaps in an effort to alleviate the dissonance in my mind every time I accidentally referred to MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  came in to walk us through CNC machining, and another guest lecturer showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it ... .036 (Introduction to Machine Learning): At some point in the middle of the semester

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  . But looking at my last, or next-to-last weeks, I was quite hosed too. I ... [/caption] I'm falling behind in this fall semester, and running hard to try and get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  stress in GPA competition At MIT, whether or not your school offers class ... Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday ... holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the ... 're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... ultimately will not be able to admit everyone, or even most of you. But ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  pie and send in a picture (mine's pumpkin)! Or you could try making a ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... a transcript of the email that was sent this morning: From: Erin To

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  , which may have led to the construction of a third double in F. As of now ... all I know, Housecomm might need to meet in secrecy these days.  But in ... first got to MIT in August 2016, I was temped in E entry, and the first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you ... to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007