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• 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 / 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  -changing. I'd initially read the English translation of MDZS, but I moved on to ... to do (aka study for the 5.111 ASE, which I ended up failing anyway ... wants to be like, "Oh my god, I can't let other people know that I have

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition

  

  honor to be sitting here in my bed writing this right now, cementing ... blogging community admits to our crimes of media over the past year via a ... Form I asked the other bloggers to fill out was pretty convoluted and

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at ... confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  't fully come to grips with what that meant. In my opinion, initiating ... , just as the brothers who initiated me last year must have, and I begin to ... what already exists, always eager to make progress on the goals and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  counselor’s initial warning and the extra work she did to sign us up for the ... some very ambitious middle schoolers that came up to us. Three years ago, we went to this panel and met Lauren there, and asked her a question

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  never expected to fail a test in my life, but we can cross that one off ... mentioned that I know "exactly how many students from South Dakota go to MIT ... go to MIT is [annotation note="keyword here is somewhat

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• 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
• 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 / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... talked at the table. we talked about how to build community and care for our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• 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 / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  coronavirus situation and him moving out to Washington, we both failed that ... wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  calories later- I went to an event put on by the MIT Innovation Initiative ... , and has the potential to instate new initiatives for student life. I see ... Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  to this vast challenge, the time for initiating meaningful steps to ... As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in ... that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut ... platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006