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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  everything with you, you're going to hear stories of failed tests, missed PSETS ... lives more difficult than they need to be. I failed that test and it ... to have failed. Not letting something get to you is important at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  the recipes. After my initial shopping, I went to my local grocery store ... think I hadn't? I feel like after I knew what it was, I started to see it ... so… I don’t even know what to say. If you’re reading this, you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points in the song that evoke the same emotions. something you did that failed

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  stems from. I never thought that failing to get into MIT would mean ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  fail and learn and grow into the person you want to be! Or don't, but ... really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people ... sometimes I fail to follow up on this, especially when times are hard, but I ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  , discussing chemistry of epoxides. 12:35 PM: Open backpack to rediscover failed ... walking later," to my second-grade phase of "Why learn to tie my shoes now ... to wear velcro." I have never, ever been one to get anything done

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  growing (it's okay to fail) My sophomore fall was by far my most difficult ... housemates, I was close to failing all my classes, and worst of all, I had ... poured into my classes, I still failed to grasp the concept. It was as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  fail. If you’re afraid to expose your weaknesses, you’ll never strengthen ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  fail to recognize or appreciate, is that amongst a host of factors ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school ... and anti-social, and that I would fail all my classes because they'd be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down, subtracted, and then I had to walk down the hall and back as I started to shed

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  'm introspective to a fault and end up writing overly pedantic spiels. On my 6-hour ... freshman-Ceri three years ago. What started as a fun thought experiment to ... overlap). But here's what I came up with: 1) It's okay to miss home

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  you can confirm that they don’t actively want you to fail. https ... . The very real possibility of failing the class and having to retake it ... wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020