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Blog / Admissions
October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.
other blogs. I do read all of your comments, and even if I don't respond ... fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... to do just that (some questions I have replied to directly and -
Blog / How to Human
notes on hope despite despite despite
lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... session in freshman fall, he read us wild geese by mary oliver. You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred -
Blog / Challenges
a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess
']sunrise[/annotation]happening? 7 terrace ❤️ to “ 7 terrace ” Do you want me to wake you if you ... essays? [annotation note='i knew he was already doing misti for iap (our ... summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating -
Blog / How to Human
winning embracing positive-sum
because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself ... , and of all the things they could do as a friend to make me feel better -
Blog / Uncategorized
Non-Blinding my junior year(s)
). Sometimes people ask me why I'm doing this to myself, but I just tell them ... . I'm sitting in classes, taking notes, doing homework. This is most of what I do these days. I'm putting my nose to the grindstone, and -
Blog / Uncategorized
you’re on your own, kid
doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the ... many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have ... safety net. the good I'm trying to navigate things on my own, like how do -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)
with: Do you mostly listen to the same artists over and over (and over ... : Familiarity (F) vs. Exploration (E) — do you listen to your favorite artists on repeat, or sample a lot of new ones? Loyalty (L) vs. Variety (V) — do you -
Blog / Challenges
whiplash feelings from yesterday
. you tell them about how, last spring, you banned yourself from doing ... , and a few months into your role you still don’t think you are doing a ... doing with your life - why are you spending so much time reading about ai -
Blog / MIT Life
I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards
understand that they don’t actually have to do anything just because I told them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then will only do the bare minimum that could be considered “sitting -
Blog / How to Human
feeling grown up walking in adult clothing
the feeling of constant creation, of always writing or coding or doing ... about doing next, because there's always something to do next. here's two ... learn this internship? and my manager asks me things like, what do you -
Blog / Challenges
avatar a weird metaphor for careers
people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... fully aware of the nature of the world can do that. but once you realize ... first i said i wanted a system to decide when to do things for myself -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
two years after my book auction in retrospect
make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do, but they didn’t really know what I should do either, because they knew ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay -
Blog / How to Food
ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato
grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... myself actual food." I'd say that during the semesters, I do an okay job -
Blog / People & Identities
in wonderland hello from the number side
class, but I do build things on my own time! Currently, I'm trying to make ... estimate of RPM by getting the pitch of the sound being produced! I'm doing ... how likely I am to Do A Thing today, we can ~extrapolate~. To figure out -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live
remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... on what applicants could do to help themselves with the application ... do with email: To the extent you can, you should try to use one -
Blog / Personal Travel
what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!
and think about what I want to do with my life. So this summer, working ... this past year. And wow, have I grown. What have I been doing? So many ... that prevented me from doing this during the semester, admittedly; it was -
Blog / MIT Life
i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?
.031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me. So many readings, labs, code reviews, java tutor exercises to do, such little time to do it all. 6.036- who knew ML was all math? I dropped 6 -
Blog / Internships & Externships
cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess
come next. So, I've just been... doing what I can. Getting through each ... wanted to know was, how does it make me feel? I think I'll have to do ... version is that I'm still going strong. My sourdough starter is doing very -
Blog / How to Human
end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It
were busier than usual, but I didn't notice since I was doing, uh, the same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... Saturday, which is usually the day I dedicate to doing pretty much 0 work