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• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  …But I never thought it would be so easy to practically fail. Almost ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round ... processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most ... This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of ... -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  three possible ratings. '-1', '0', and '1'. A negative one fails to meet ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few ... go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  still be happy and successful and go on to do great things. Hey, I failed ... /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was pretty psyched. Original list (which is to say, my perspective on life at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was used to. I complained about "drinking from the fire hose" since that ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... until late November, my very last test of the semester. It's one thing to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  have yet been exposed to. Don't blame me if you fail your classes. Dr ... shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem myself to you applicants and prefroshers and even preapplicants out there, I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  . The content was totally fair and just challenging enough not to be ... present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a similar situation. Feel free to treat it as a chronological bucket list or

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  naps into 2 hr naps. I’ve repetitively failed at responding to free food ... ’ve failed a midterm. I’ve aced a midterm. I’ve laser cut and assembled a brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  that you wanted to be more academic and rigorous, and failing your first ... I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  -olds -- any analysis which suggests otherwise fails to properly account for the ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  whether I failed or passed. But I just know that I tried my hardest to fill ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control ... !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  failed the 18.03 ASE, I would not have been able to change majors, so I ... 't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason, though, is that I wanted to write something perfect and meaningful and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... : never delete your Public. NEVER DELETE YOUR PUBLIC. If you are trying to ... then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  time this year I've failed to meet an almost-famous person, and to be ... you fail to field a team. Well, you can't ever waste money, ever ... to go through and answer them all tonight... unless they were so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Prussian Monarch Frederick William used to kidnap ... royal guard. Like a freshman? Haha, no, you aren't allowed to do that ... first time. Last night I woke up at 5:30 to put the finishing touches on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006