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• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in ... still be happy and successful and go on to do great things. Hey, I failed ... ) Do you have any secrets dealing with the black rings or/and wrinkles

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  take outside the General Institute Requirements. (If you're only doing ... programs and a blank Excel spreadsheet, but I don't know if it will do you ... international orientation will go from August 21 to August 23. Students doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs ... postdoc with whom I work directly, Albert. I was still learning how to do all the different lab protocols, and since I didn't know how to do most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... 'm not really sure why I do these things; I suppose its just one of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  description, nor is it in Matt's. It's something we do in our spare time because ... school who was killed. You couldn't have said it better - people do need to ... . Thanks for doing your part to keep these threads on the right path. As you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I’m not doing enough. i hate the thought that if i tell them i have this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch ... somewhere were wrong? Do I need to print out that page, sign it, and mail it ... . ------------------------------------- Anonymous wrote, "hey, do you recommend any programs seniors could do in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... . You might be able to find a community that enjoys doing [insert hobby ... .” There was always something I could be doing, perhaps even something I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  share of making sure the people around me were doing okay. I felt like ... to anyone around me. I still do my best to check-in with my friends; still do my best to read people’s body posture and facial expression and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  , some have less, but you do kinda have to map out a courseroad if you ... ?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of what you want, with fewer requirements. “Oh, I know a guy doing that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  intention of doing it...except if I got accepted to PlayStation. Things have a ... I intend to do GTL somewhere in Europe next IAP. Sidequest 7: Beat ... of given up on this, because like the New Englander I am, I do have a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  tried to do some machine learning on it and it took soooooo loooooong to ... to do...or the time I told someone I was an MIT Computer Science ... where the TA was doing an introduction for how to code in C++, and he

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  do some simple integral problems on the board a couple times, and one ... professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... gets you excited. Until you have to do homework. 2. Go over one example

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  ’s lots of space and not entirely sure what to do with it (except sit there ... offices across from mine do and that is a lot like having a window myself ... work. I’m hoping to be able to do my on-campus TA work and email checking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  huge difference for me and my family. Please do note that I'm aware of ... blogger). How's it being a vegetarian at MIT. Do you know any vegans/do you ... admit are able to do the work. Stats don't get you acceptance into MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  this manner - genuine being the key word. If you do, it'll hopefully show ... diversifying yourself, though, just because "everybody's doing it" - the ... wanting to got to MIT since I was little, do you have any advice or tips to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  would cook, and I would do the dishes. (Note: If somebody who is an ... Neurogenetics, was mostly doing population studies of genetic variation, looking ... doing it, and I'm glad. It would have been nice to have another HASS

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  physicists' own thought experiments. Anyway, all that being said, I do think ... attention to your applications as any other. tami wrote, "May I know what do ... above 600 hurtful? Or do you prefer >700? How to distinguish between good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  algorithm, which is a cool way of doing parameter estimation for complicated ... at pika and do more work on my pset. 12:42 a.m. My brain is not really ... wonderful time doing the assignment! 12:20 p.m. I wander downstairs where

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math began to nudge me more often. I wondered if I was doing it purely out of ego and stubbornness and not because I actually wanted to. I didn't do a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024