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• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry. I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  how to do a bunch of 2.005 so I don't fail it next semester 3) Work on ... Alley," but to make matters confusing all of the dorm addresses are on "Memorial Dr." Adding to it is that everybody just calls it dorm row. View

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  home. I’d come out to my parents. I’d failed my first MIT exam. Looking ... knew I failed a test, but I didn't notice I stopped going to classes ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I ... Folkers' paragraph that begins "I started to paint again." Without further ado, here are Folkers' words: MIT is just another place Prior to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  deserved to fail: it hurt so much to know that in terms of what will show up ... vulnerable to the anguish of failing a test, like I was back in freshman year ... was doomed to fail the entire class and then fail at life. He took my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  something for everyone that they failed to convey what made their institution ... a high standard. There's no room to fail. On NPR's Morning Edition ... from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  struggled or failed? It's not a trick question, it's to show what you're made ... 's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18.03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  biorhythms and allow me to sleep in when possible have failed emphatically ... deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video-chat excessively with friends I’d already begun to miss. I haven’t had much time for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  that his actions became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Afraid to fail ... which the hero goes it alone to kill the bad guys, and avenge those who ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  "failing" category; the average is almost twice my score, and I am close to ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... freebie in the sense that it requires little effort or thought to write

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  ’m not intelligent, it doesn’t mean I’m going to fail. It just means that I ... mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  failed that wasn't at MIT was my driver's test."]I don't have to drive ... People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  felt SO proud of our ELL team. This time last semester, my team failed to ... I joined GEL because I want to be able to implement my ideas in the ... ” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  fail, during a certain time of year, things just sort of feel flat to me ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... things I've done to explain why I've been away from this platform. To be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  flower fails to bloom because of the environment. But because it fails to ... and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  successful and failed policies have been deployed to address it in the past; [2 ... that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  recitations to go to, so I decided, being the music lover that I am, to head over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... . The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008