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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  countries, and more than 900 different high schools. Though they all do ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a modest ... -eyed and reminded us that what we do is more than a job: it is a privilege

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  freeing, especially when i can just do things without worrying about grades ... do something else whenever i worried about decisions. i'm not ... strategy for you, and it might not. i do want to say that, if it helps you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing ... , freshman fall, that you don't have to save the world; that all you have to do ... other people's pain. Not a hundred, not ten, not even one. All you can do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

   not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... entertainment and media. I'll be doing this UROP with Shayna '23 and my advisor is actually Chris Petey Peterson himself so it's nice to do it with familiar

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  ways I gauge how well I'm doing is by how often I call my parents. If I'm doing well, I'll call them every two or three days. If I'm doing poorly, I ... , if I'm doing really, exceedingly badly, I just won't call them at all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  have What I do for fun Food eating habits Thoughts about making ... 'll try to answer whatever questions you have in good faith — though do ... 't promise rapid responses to your questions after 8/12, I do promise that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  I was creating and focused more on what the audience was doing. I ... everything I do. It’s kind of connected to the question that everyone seems to ask at some point, “What do you love most about *insert school name here

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  because this class has been hell for me and I couldn't do it again, I didn't want to do it again. I spiraled and talked to some people about some ... would do. I managed to nearly calm myself down and came to terms with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  up with. there are obviously less creepy and type-A ways to do this ... least some mechanism for doing this since there are a lot of amazing ... doing so will definitely be super rewarding :)

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  activation energy for doing so was dummy high and because I didn't want to miss ... . Anyway, one thing that I've started to do with my friends is playing the ... introspection. One example, "to what do you attribute to your success," generated

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts ... ? DO. YOU. KNOW. WHAT. ACTUALLY LITERALLY FOR REALSIES. HAPPENS. I pass ... ’ve improved my grade soooooo much if I had just s.u.b.m.i.t.t.e.d.i.t. Do u

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  do different things — geology and gymnastics, journalism and jujitsu ... . Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed ... reminded us that what we do is more than a job, but a privilege and an honor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,000 high schools all across the world. Though they all do different things ... mountains, with other mountaineers, next fall. Of the students to whom we do ... -smart students has left us bleary-eyed and reminded us that what we do is more than

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  take it at your pace. I'd ideally do yoga after my morning jog as a ... doing stuff in a group (with strangers who don’t know you’re a ticking ... joined a floor aerobics class that was super fun and intense. You could do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... .[annotation note="This is a joke. Please don't do this."]Drop all your classes ... money. This probably has something to do with how at MIT you don’t pay

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  , truthfully doing. Because I have come to a realization. We spend every single ... how a person is doing. “How are you” is asked quickly and instinctively ... failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do ... do. But it's been two months without posting and I'm going hungry. I ... like what I am doing is "bloggable", I shall think back to my all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  want to do, so we commited to making something nice. We found a lumber ... wondering: what in the world are we doing? Finally, we mounted our ... . "This is insane. Why did we do this?" We bought an oil painting (on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  write about things you do at MIT. Admissions officers can write about ... reasonably free to write about things you do, think, and experience while you ... like to do, then head on over to Slideroom and fill out the blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016