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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  Creator, and he threw a whole hissy fit about what real music is. I haven ... perfectionist, not until the past several years. Perfectionism and high ... tendencies, and that shiny bar you've set for yourself becomes the standard for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740: Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the ... is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... impression that I had already seen the museum and it wasn't that great. It was ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  digital publication working on real, creative stuff, and since my micro ... called the "externship" program. i did an externship last IAP, and you can ... MIT. I've kept up with people and even found time to do some additional

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation ... have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of ... stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  haven’t dropped a real class at MIT before and it was definitely not my ... ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... time between registration and now, I also added [annotation note="a class

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  of delight for some, and anger and confusion for others. Guidance ... were denied admission. Mothers are dealing with despondent teenagers. And, as we know from message boards and emails, some kids are lashing out

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  the musical we’re currently listening to, Ghost Quartet, starts, and it ... to do well on the next two exams, final, and psets for us to pass the ... exam. See how we do. And based on that, make a decision on whether we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... MIT until the coordinator suggested it. I thought she was joking, and ... year. By that point I had filled out the core part of my Common App and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won’t get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and deeply consider why I found MIT so hard--and exactly what it is that causes ... teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  during their time at MIT. Two are humanities classes, and the others relate ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new forms of writing. This past semester, I took [annotation note="3.010 and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... little overboard and printed more than I needed. There were so many big ... enthralled. Then, as I was about to head back to my dorm and call it a day, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  , and open as possible. That's why I tend to believe that most of the so ... amazing advice and assistance: my parents. From August until December, my ... deadlines, boosted my spirits and my confidence when I felt overwhelmed. She

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... three parts. Classes I'm super excited for my classes this semester (and ... the Course 6 foundation and header classes! This basically means that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  MIT I consider “successful” and the semesters during which I accepted the most help from and collaboration with others. Freshman spring: I ... and recitations consistently. Junior spring: I took the experimental

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a two-week pset associated with each of these topics, and an open ... place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... negative decision does not negate your abilities, accomplishments, and dreams ... . Like, for real, it’s not about that at all. A positive decision

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... rock star and MIT professor Bob Langer. The professor asked if anybody in ... , and a bunch of awestruck students breathlessly explained, "OH, he came

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more ... letters and reje...not-acceptance letters, do you ever get people who come on here and say harsh things?" Well, as has been noted in the comments

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005