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  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  how it felt for these to be hammered home. 5. If you don't succeed, the ... for me? Short answer: No. Long answer: No. Saying "I'm not smart ... be ascribed to not studying for long enough, but at some point “I just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow ... that always seems to have something playing, whether Dr. Who, Inception

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... certainly come into play in a college admissions decision, the actual impact

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  backwards for that shot. I don't play it that way. Also, the mini-drumset was ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that rhyming's necessary, but it was always a crutch for me. I digress. Let

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... . A quick, functioning prototype for a foam wire cutter.  Mocked up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... days all the more. Fridays, for instance, I only have one lecture at 10 AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... heard myself pull in air. It was Jane Lynch, the actress who plays Sue

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... 's "REX", or Residence Exploration, put on by students, where you can play D ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... the '93 dormitories began to play the fire hoses up and down the ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it ... underside of my nose, to grabbing the cup on my desk that’s been empty for ... ’ve taken before. The workload for all of my classes has been reduced by a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... to play with. At that time, I felt there were only these two types, and ... traveled together in China for a vacation (I was stuck at home interning :P

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  ="87065" /] Pros booths are great for solo/partner work comfortable seating ... positive but for me is distracting food is so overpriced Fourth Floor ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out ... , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... for the pocket to release indigestible material that accumulates over

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  orange for Battle Royale, the most recent Assassins' Guild game. I rather ... , I didn't have any "formal" clothes, especially not for warm weather. I ... discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  are, so we drew something for you!         ... majority of attendees will be looking for friends, just like you! 3. Visit ... community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... weighed my options, called my mom, and dropped the class. For the past two ... be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can ... [annotation note="Calculus 2 on steroids. More work for no extra credit, but you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022