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  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  all I could do was keep going so I could find out. I knew exactly what I’d ... of coming back as easily as I’d put on sweatpants and sneakers, and now ... nights, the crushing anxiety that surrounded me before every test, every

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of ... Learning and Resource Center) was actually the first job I'd ever held -- I ... my life. It was time to breed the macaque colony (which was a test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  less general elective credit from the AP test, but as I said, it's not ... .01) up to 5 weeks into the semester. Carmel: Awesome post Sam. I think I'd ... pull a four or a five out of my ass I'd want to take physics all over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... high, I don't think I'd be happy surrounded by students who didn't really ... previous lab experience (I'd worked at the NIH that summer). Two emailed me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  ’s been a long time since I’ve so thoroughly bungled a test. There are many ... test, triple- and quadruple-checking for errors that I might ... . [caption id="attachment_113900" align="aligncenter" width="300"] SUBWAY RATS[/caption]

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  was staying on campus and was updated on testing and all that jazz. The ... HackerRank tests, which I did in one sitting. The next week, I got two more ... unpack all of my stuff, because I knew that I'd have to pack it again

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• 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)

  

  small portion of their workflows, so mostly, I listened, and sometimes, I’d ... ’s also a battery of tests from any code your changes touch that have to ... code is passing the given tests, and I’ve deleted all the commented

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  made good progress and would just need to finish assembling and testing ... goes terribly wrong, suggests this is some of the later testing on ... basement was excitement, and I knew in that moment, there was nowhere else I’d

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  applications in September of my senior year after I’d gone to Cambridge for a ... can’t tell you for another week, because they’re not finished testing ... important test that defines your entire grade, so it’ll be a few more days

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  .03 test there, and I find it a very serene environment. I also took a nap there, post-biology test. It is also very scholarly looking, and the light ... student, I’d like to get more invested in activism on and outside campus, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really ... , at any of the research institutions I'd been accepted to I asked a lot ... , improving methods. I've realized that THIS stage is the real test of whether I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  were to leave, we hadn’t even tested our prototype – more ... and started walking around in the hopes of finding a suitable testing ... only because I'd had the chance to meet such inspiring people, but also

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  account she established to discover she had been accepted for admittance ... the first student at the school to test out of a pre-calculus class with ... math test and his math SAT test. Jacob is tall and lean, with a modest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  honest account, even if it’s overwhelming at times. Please take care of ... progressing on calling things discrimination. I told him how I’d had to hide my ... -the-sin-not-the-sinner kind I’d gotten used to in high school. He told me he was glad I was with

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  lol Stressful Things 6.837 (Computer Graphics) Test This class has only one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is great, because lots of tests aren’t fun. But because this test is so late

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... second test wasn't much better (9/20) but was within a point of average

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  GRE general test (which has math, verbal, and writing sections, just like the SAT) and the GRE biology subject test (which is similar to, although more difficult than, the SAT II in biology). I took the general test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  elementary school students' test scores with the size of their shoes, you will ... tests.) So now you know they are correlated, but you would never make a ... friend took the test as well, he got an 800. You're thinking, "ok, we sent

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and ... 're big believers in holding each other accountable and trying to make MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  &A session on MIT Admissions' official Instagram account. Running these events ... choosing MIT over USC. I was really concerned that I'd be sacrificing fun and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020