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  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  I don't actually care whether the Red Sox win or lose. (Uh oh. Am I ... than done, but try to remain a semi-reasonable human being. Don't hole ... classes you're taking - don't surrender to senioritis and stop doing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  a painful metaphor for my life right now. (Sometimes, a leaf isn't ... ? (If there is any at all.) There's no specific upper-bound, but MIT doesn't award second bachelor's degrees. As long as you don't already have an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Campus dormitory; he moved his stuff in August of 1996, and didn't move his ... . That isn't a common situation (most students prefer to "upgrade" their ... sent in w/regular application), the midyear report tracking box isn't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  ="although nothing is possible with the heart of the cards 😏 jk please don’t do this it’s not worth it"]THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA DON'T TRY THIS IT ... half marathon by the end of the summer.  But that didn’t end up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  scrolling and scanning, here's a table of contents: 1. Calculus and APs aren't ... 'm worried that by pursuing a science/engineering career, I won't be helping ... school as great as MIT...I'm obsessed with it. I'm sad that I probably won't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  don't know. That's a HARD class.” I guess the MIT freshman mentality was still in me, and I thought, "Wouldn't I be wasting my time here if I wasn't challenging myself? Won't this help me be REALLY awesome at EVERYTHING having to

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• 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

  

  loved the class, too. I just couldn’t do it. It was too much work. Grade ... : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for ... this class because, I don’t know, I didn’t write short stories?!? But

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can't ... our year committed suicide. I wasn't very close to her, but it still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  also up there in my interests but I didn't want to work with organic ... the center: "activities where you create things." I don't know. There ... exploring a different field, which was biomedical engineering. I don’t know

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  reassurances my friends give me, I can't help but feel as if it's all one big ... , and if we don't, she'll feel bad. And while I know my friends aren't doing this at all, it doesn't stop the doubts and wondering and fears from

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

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  , of course, won't make things easy for you, but I hope that some of ... aren’t always right, especially in nerd school. Everyone here has ... semester. Don’t panic, don’t procrastinate—I believe in you. The cut

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  direct communication helps those of you who weren’t able to visit during CPW and can’t imagine yourself in the active community from the i3 video ... Campus if you didn't come here with three patents and a business in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  some variations: you don’t cry, but instead, silently cheer because you ... have to immerse yourself into this persona if this isn’t you, so I ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Right? On one hand, there’s nothing ... hand? I didn’t quite know yet. Mine was predominantly a fear of action ... was met with distaste, discomfort, grumbling about why things couldn’t

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... application profile, the little things you can do that can't hurt your chances ... probably won't point out their/they're/there, who's/whose, aloud

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  survived my flight into Logan Airport, even though I didn't think I would at ... you can see the colors of their towels, and you still can't see the ... didn't even know how to cross streets in the city, let alone how to tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  letter, tΞp is the co-ed fraternity formerly known as tEp."]t ... join a sorority/fraternity)"]something else,[/annotation] work week at tΞp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a ... actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the ... videogames. I sometimes play my friend Satya in Smash, and I don’t think I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I just putting myself through an unnecessary struggle?" Why I didn't ... background in anything AI-related, still eludes me. On the other hand, I don't ... after undergrad? I don't know. Industry? Academia? I don't even know if I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  . it turns out it wasn't covid, as multiple negative pcrs and rapids ... said. "i think it should be on your chart? maybe you just can't see it ... hitting me pretty hard. getting sick definitely didn't help. my sore throat

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022