— Professor Grossman (3.091) about MIT



Something inspiring that my chemistry professor said today that I really needed to hear.

It’s been sort of a bad weekend/week, some things went down back at home on Sunday, and that’s always hard because I’m here and someone I care about is in trouble across the country and I can’t help or comfort them. I’m happy no one here knows what’s going on so I don’t have to answer questions.

I failed my first chemistry quiz. 3/10. The average was 7.

Caught (and recovered from) the common cold (aka the freshman plague).

Scored the lowest on my 8.01 pset of all my friends.

Officially got my first taste of the firehose.

I have psets due and a physics exam and chemistry quiz tomorrow.

But it’s ok.

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