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• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  students at MIT could do their own projects instead of helping Professors ... return for payment. The key is to look for professors who are doing ... students, so don't worry about being materialistic! Yes, you can do a UROP

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . One of the questions on the app. asks, "What do you do for fun?" and ... basis and I do it because it is an absolute blast. Without going too much ... not much I would rather be doing with my time. However, I am afraid

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... with the EC contact information...what do I write/say when I email ... recipe? :-) Do people share the cost of staples for the hall and cook

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  demystify what admissions officers do. I think that for many students, the ... . So, I'm often asked, what do you do when you're not reading applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  week. last spring i wanted to do something substantial over the summer ... through my time here. i felt like i could be doing more. i feel like i’m doing all that i can, but maybe not the right things. i wish i could just

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . UROPs are wildly popular, with 92% of undergrads doing one at some point ... doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... … yet sometimes I can’t help but wonder – what are they doing right that I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  could've applied elsewhere for work. in another world i could be doing a ... to me and i want to do something about it. because mit isn't a place ... because we do. hence the chorus of branches: "my, my heart is my own / i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  after realizing I did not want to source tools and materials. I do ... while doing so that I wasn’t entirely sure what kids were reading these ... feel more fear than I do because they were generally not late. They also

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become ... more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  , climate change and covid and so on- and all i do is focus on my breathing or ... feel great when i do this. so recently i’ve been wondering what it would ... . would there be anything fundamentally wrong with doing so, if it were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... , many puzzles to do. The [annotation note="for those of you who do FRC

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  quiz three years ago and was told he was an INFJ. He wanted to do this ... about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2 ... , always imagined myself as a Slytherin in the times I do go to Hogwarts

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  , but my feet do step step step. one step less than i should have. the next ... running the remainder of Spring HSSP this year.” how do you tell a thousand ... ? how do you acknowledge their disappointment, and how do you communicate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make ... . And so there are times where I ask myself: Am I doing enough? It's a common dilemma we find ourselves. When we have things to do, we are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  rather than a consumer. Since I've been doing that, I've been really ... doing my makeup back in middle school and the first two years of high ... , but I really miss doing intricate eyeshadow looks. For now, I think I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  diverted my attention and ended up writing poetry! I used to do this all the ... did it. It felt nice to throw caution to the wind and just do it. After ... capacity to do any other post besides this one. Not right now. So here’s my

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  , what we can do to make it better. For example…  Are you able to balance ... enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community on campus? Do you feel MIT supports your personal wellness and well

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  an FAQ to explain what to do if your application is disrupted by ... be as flexible as possible in these situations. When you’re able to do ... , and we'll do what we can to accommodate you in dire circumstances. Take

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  animation, but it did teach me what I didn’t like to do with animation. It was a real fast turnaround but I got to paint, I got to do a little bit of ... studios are in LA, so just come out, I don’t know what you’re doing here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up ... good umbrella will do, although you may suffer from blowback and possible ... : Try to do everything, but don’t try too hard. Revel in the possibilities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017