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I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y’all, I’ve taken so many L’s. Physics L The summer before you come to MIT, you have to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this suggestion. It’s through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high school, so I didn’t study for it. I already know the material, right? I can make up excuses like that I didn’t know the syntax of MITx, but the short of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible classes: Math: 18.01⁠01 , 18.02⁠02 , 18.01a/18.02a⁠03 , and 18.022⁠04 Physics: 8.01⁠05 , 8.02⁠06 , and the accursed 8.01L [Physics Long

Taking the L by Kayode D. '27 On "failure" at a place like MIT. October 16, 2024 in Academics & Research , Advice , Best of the Blogs , Challenges , Classes , How to Human , Rural and Small-Town View all I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y’all, I’ve taken so many L’s. Physics L The summer before you come to MIT, you have to take a math asse

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