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  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Do you have prior experience that you want to build upon, or put to use in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... all do research! I know people who got UROPs by sticking around after

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... doing this, but, regardless, it left me with what should have been a ... -day Thanksgiving weekend doing a problem set for 1.00 (Intro to Computers and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than ... 's motto is learn anything, teach anything, do anything, and we really mean ... possibility. Imagine what we could do if we didn't have to worry about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ? Learn anything The extracurricular he really likes doing Hi, are you ... anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... ). Community got submerged. I don't recommend doing that, but it did teach me my ... feel at home. I'm trying to do more outings and have a bit of a group

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  morning and slept at midnight and yet I felt like I didn't do anything. Time ... , but I can start with the ones I do know the names of. There's the ... ask myself. What do I want to be more vulnerable about? It may seem

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  depressed person do THIS?” she says at am as she folds her laundry that came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  by myself. I think maybe the talking or affirming I do when feasting ... silence in my car or hotel room, I think to myself, “Would Flat Tim do it ... and community-based organizations, but I swear I'm doing work and

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  might impact their college applications. We do not expect or prefer any ... students do. However, as part of the Turning the Tide report, we have also ... responsibility is, like most things at MIT, something you learn best by doing

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  little knowledge of what I'm doing. Mostly going off instinct, referencing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  though, nearly incomprehensible to the vast majority. I do explain that I ... transformative experiences in situations like these, and even do a great deal of ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine ... -building headaches like a drive failure, there was little time to do anything beyond ... Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• 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 ... to make huge and sweeping changes to try and find better ways to do

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

  Mind and hand

  

  do, but couldn't build anything if their life depended on it. They don ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... 's forge to make knife and sword blades, and do metalworking in general. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... , cj and claire, the main thing you'll do is tacking. i'll handle the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra about doing it? And so, we have not one, but two completely separate sets ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  funds do? To amuse myself, I briefly pictured manicured shrubs made from ... . I didn’t know what to do, so I chose to do nothing: stumbled into a ... curiosities and dreams, but I don’t know what to do with that. I want to learn

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

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... greater, just as you do. Which brings me back to my own life. I have ... bathroom keep asking me what I am going to do with my life, and I just don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006