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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper ... 8:30pm. 7:51pm: The office gets a call from our chairman – Joe '12

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  research and then each do a project ourselves. My project was about the ... . Robby would do a screechy voice and yell “BILL!” and Bill would yell ... it a go. You do the animating, your friend does the script-writing and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  'd do a weeks worth of BC calc homework less than an hour before turning ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... -shiŋFunction: adjective Date: 18251 : that smashes : crushing; a smashing defeat 2

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I feel that it's still a slogan that sounds cute, but it's also meaningful

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  . I didn’t know what to do, so I chose to do nothing: stumbled into a ... world, to do things with purpose, and I’ll never learn that from doing a ... , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at night, working, working, working. i'm trying to challenge myself to do a ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... your advisor and a few other students doing something Really Cool. I am ... 'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college ... plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal ... problem sets, a semester spent reflecting about how an experience made you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  my thesis. I kept doing that, a few hours at a time, every day that I ... indoor track, mentally planning what I would do in the case of a zombie ... , doing too much with too little. On March 12th, while on a morning run, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  future will be a mystery any more. ... So, friends, every day do something ... you can do a thing, even a very specific thing like code a mean compiler ... facet of my many academic fascinations, there is a professor at MIT doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement ... go to MIT, so I should be able to do a simple puzzle, right? Wrong ... would go on Ellen or Jimmy Fallon and do a horror escape room and just

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  , not everyone who joins a Guild game or comes to Squares will do one of ... responsibility, but as a title or a source of pride. This is something we could do ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  and not them and that’s all. Not because I’m not doing A, B, C and I can ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  at MIT. The question thus arises: how do we constitute a class from all ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... my "a day in the life". It's something I chose to do because I want to ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  chancing may be fun, or a way to blow off steam, or just something to do ... Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  to do. We held a meeting to discuss our preferences/how to best stick ... me doing some tiktok-esque dance in there Burton-Conner Shirts After a ... love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020