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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... my physics professor. I’d googled her name the night before and ... test in first-year algebra but would never use in real life. 8.022 is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  scale The why game [caption id="attachment_49403" align ... ) hit people who go overtime. [caption id="attachment_49471" align ... to sign up to teach for Splash. [caption id="attachment_49472" align

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  :’). [caption id="attachment_108137" align="alignnone" width="768"] before the ... little memory capsule of the trip. [caption id="attachment_108147" align ... id="attachment_108159" align="alignnone" width="1000"] with poetry by

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  . While I’d like to blog (both on here and not), I haven’t been. Finding ... fair kid. I’d been doing a long series of projects on the effect of ... , who really were hoping I had an answer (especially because by then, I’d

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... Competition Y that comes after X Wow if I were international I’d never have gotten in. Hobbies I’d never heard of, towns I’d only heard of, and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... 'll struggle to get good grades (I know grades aren't everything, but I'd like to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  still intact. [caption id="attachment_58667" align="alignnone" width="1000 ... , filled with the kind of courage only a teenager could have.  [caption id ... freshman year, every D or F on a test chipping away at the carefully curated

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... . I wouldn’t know how to respond when they asked me why, so I’d say ... them. [caption id="attachment_71919" align="alignnone" width="1203

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... whites and browns of my bedding and furniture.   [caption id

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... message to my dorm’s email list.  [caption id="attachment_57263" align ... excited when we de Florez gave us money:  [caption id="attachment_57351

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in particular, the scientific invalidity of the Myers-Briggs test. Well, I also ... for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  an opening to introduce the Jim Mar Test. Used by Mar to evaluate potential AeroAstro faculty members during interviews, the test goes like this ... , or SpaceX, and that I'd be left stranded if I ever wanted to leave the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  wasn’t something I’d be planning for in the short term. And yet, my last ... , testing, redesigning, and testing again. Often, something comes together

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  perfect GPA, my interviewer loved me, I had founded a few clubs, and my test ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... MIT was where I was meant to be. Where I'd thrive. Where I belonged

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  test I flunked, dropping out of a musical to take care of my chem grade when I’d never had to make compromises before, the dissolution of my ... I weren’t so good at lying to therapists (not something I’d recommend

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  description "Providing live testing of unicode support and alphabetization." And ... test, and I decided to stay for the night and hang out. The Hunt kickoff ... charge of COVID policy, my negative test, and then he gave me a sticker to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  all of these MIT pictures: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width ... wrote a Sporcle quiz so you can test yourself on the building numbers on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... stern judgment, I took a detour and thought about flux and flow. I'd like

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  .   [caption id="attachment_56708" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Chartered on ... who she really was, and always supported her.  [caption id ... .   [caption id="attachment_56716" align="aligncenter" width="909"] Kenneth and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020