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• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  through! I got an 85%, 95%, and 88% on the last three psets… Only to fail ... friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically this semester, and she seemed to be pretty embarrassed about this. BUT

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  , past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better ... , to better grades Take me away, warm summer days There's a place that I ... 's no more Cs in the despair there is hope And nobody fails, there's only

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  GREATEST, and I am going to continue to be the GREATEST", and then they fail ... Two exams down, one to go. Well, strictly speaking, 462 units down, 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT. there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  would be able to create using those implementations. The initial idea ... course 6 class we wanted to take. Last semester, we finally took 6 ... semester, and while they did seem interesting, we felt like we wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he'd simply raise his left arm high over his head and point to his watch with

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of clothing, has now taken to paying an entourage of four Japanese girls to ... district of Japan and wear funky punk-rocker clothing. It occurred to me that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  the team's first initiative and am looking forward to seeing if we ... 't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• 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 / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... Science. ItТƒфs pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one ... To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A ... visit the Quadric Designs website. Until the next time, stay tuned to the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  failed for good I am back to having all those B's With one test, I will ... goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... ashamed Just one test sets my head inflamed Silent music starts to play One

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... looked like. For 2016, I wanted to really push for change. I decided I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  going to be smarter than me and I'm going to fail and I AM SO SCARED ... have to take his Unified finals, because he would have failed them. And ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  seven-year-olds to the addicting melodies of Lady Gaga, and initiating a ... things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up ... that should rightfully go to the extremely awesome '14s (seriously, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set ... ’s going to sink fastest because of it?” I couldn’t argue ... to change the world in the same breath. I’ve never met anyone who

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007