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• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  hard. I've struggled to scrape by with passing grades, and have failed ... 't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  , impressionable students training diligently to become Pokemon masters. Never was ... vector is “something that has intrinsic pointiness.” (This also happens to ... students are people just like you and me, except that they like to talk about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  .... Failing to anticipate how authoritarian governments would respond to the ... quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... sometimes...surprisingly enough it's nice to not be sitting down all day. here

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  was unheard of for me to struggle, or be wrong, or, even worse, fail ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... to pieces, and ironically, this was the year when more people than he

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  thing MIT has taught me, it’s that failing doesn’t have to be forever. In ... to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  over to the previously mentioned Diesel Cafe, where I read three applications, before heading to Teele Square for my usual Tuesday night pub trivia with Jeff and Chris (Prof. Morse to you). Sadly, we failed to win

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  'm terrified that I'll fail. I've tried to do things and failed at them before - take, for example, everything related to 18.02 ever - but if I fail at ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  also, it'll be interesting as i have tried (and failed) to learn swimming ... have tried, and failed, to learn swimming in nineteen separate occasions ... downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  's alumni interviews. I am looking forward to discussing them on this blog, but first allow me to introduce myself. After growing up in Queens, NY, I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter. “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... My apologies to Clement Clark Moore. ‘Twas the night before finals

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

    ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go ... ’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I ... overwhelming, but give it all you got. Everyone’s afraid of failing. In each of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... my KeyboardFace™ wasn't caused by one big epic scientific fail for once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  accept that we may fail in the pursuit of bringing our dream to life. To ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I'd really been wanting to remedy. Specifically, I wanted to learn how to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  underneath) to make up for the fact that I again failed to wake up early to go ... What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to turn the attention specifically to you, the wide-eyed and apparently confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  big goals that I set out to conquer and failed at. I made it 50 miles ... unemployment, reached out to my network, started applying, and ... failed. Good ... sometimes, no matter how hard you work, you're just going to fail, and it's ok

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025