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  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  already doing research in the field I want to dedicate the rest of my life ... drove you to follow it. Do it because you know you want to do it, not

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... should come naturally? Doing the things you love to pass the time; it ... please, if you find yourself sitting on a stove, do yourself a favor and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  would be a lot more dull.” Do you have any nerdy interests? MIT is known ... explains how, as a dog lover at heart, she has gotten into the hobby of doing ... . What do you have to say to people who are reading the blogs and applying

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  colleges. This network is brand new this academic year. “Where do you want ... academic advisor (Dr. Ann Graybiel, a really cool person doing really cool ... me hands-on experience and helped me decide if I wanted to do something

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  . And then David and Ali asked me, “Do you want to lead this new project ... ."]trainers[/annotation] and performers and generally people who knew how to Do Things ... /volunteers/photographers. Because I had literally no idea what I was doing, I’d email people asking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  pray that you do. A few key facts about me that may or may not provide ... [annotation note="cj: stressed out, busy, lots of things to do, idk ... do? Remember that dietary guidelines change drastically every few years

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , cramming problem sets, meeting people, and doing activities, and then in the evening you don’t have enough energy to do anything anymore. But this is ... ASE, I eat lunch, I go to another orientation event or go do a REX event

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I ... , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... charge in a group setting as much as I do. As a fire sign, they are known

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  do, and Chinatown is awesome for that. My memories of the district ... backgrounds, and so do the customers. Some are friendly, and others grim ... Do We Have Snot?" (hosted by Elizabeth C. '13), "Why Can We Regrow A

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  's certain parts of campus or food or whatever! Otherwise I'll just do my best ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... of the bloggers *really* do), but you might know my face/backpack color

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  (see, e.g., Krystal, Rachel, Ceri, Ana). I've been thinking about doing ... dark brain fairies at bay, and now I make it a priority. I do make sure ... extracurricular or award I've never heard of, etc). Doing this job well requires

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  -time employer to do the same. But it also horrified me, because suddenly I was ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We ... sentimental of a person and do that crap everytime I go home, and because I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  helping hand - hey, we've all been there before! * Generally, you are doing ... . Studying usually involves doing problem sets (the equivalent to homework in ... of what the people around you are doing, it is the most important to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  might imagine, quite a few of them! Unfortunately we do operate under some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  notoriously huge workload because I was pretty sure that I'd love doing the work, no matter how much there was (I really enjoyed, for example, doing ... still do well at MIT, that's great... but if not, be as brutally honest as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do ... twisted, unconventional, and often incorrect. It's what we came here to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  do we mean by this? Everyone here was admitted based on the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  i genuinely wanted to do, and a tight knit community i feel that i ... freshman year was to do a good job to whatever i commit to. through my own ... can generally be relied on to do certain things is quite valuable as

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  on what you're looking for. But first, where do we begin? How to Get ... lease. The Good vs The Bad How do you know if living off-campus would be ... note="and i do some of those other things at mit"]do work when I'm home

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  they now, what do they do? And how far back could I go? Tracing the past ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research ... that we leave records of what we currently do.']ESP historian

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022