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Blog / Academics & Research
getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵
and not painful to do. Having to sit down and listen to thermodynamics ... , Godzilla. I'll do the pset I'll learn the topic whatever whatever, but today ... are things I could learn/do on my own time without much penalty). It is -
Blog / Challenges
short term / long term on growth and learning
write about it, what I'm doing and the conversations I've had, but ... so long I can't help but ask myself: Why do I still feel this way? I ... feel, what I can do to fix it, and how I'm going to go about this summer -
Blog / Admissions
Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report
have of students – and more important, by clarifying what we do not ... think they need to do to be strong applicants, and what they actually need to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square
lecture, and at some point thinking: "is this what mathematicians do all day?", which was a question quickly followed up by: "wait,,,, what do mathematicians actually... do?" And it's not like I haven't had this question -
Blog / Academics & Research
winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus
January, students are free to do whatever they want, whether that be staying at home or on campus relaxing, doing a micro-internship or a ... "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is -
Blog / Academics & Research
laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1
note="please do not actually attempt at home"]Because you should ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last ... I spent most of September and October doing safety trainings and -
Blog / Challenges
unicorns big confusion
mean is that people often tell me that i’m doing great or that they ... do exactly three things: read, write, and talk to people. every other ... know i’ll be able to do them again when i need to? last week one of my -
Blog / Admissions
Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again
awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I ... First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in ... -person interview would be difficult. Of course, I prefer doing in-person interviews -
Blog / Challenges
H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.
)...parts to the same problem - so in actuality you are doing like 20 smaller ... week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you -
Blog / Challenges
at least it’s not covid sick day
, mind you—and was left listless. what did people do when they were sick ... for… anything. without anything else to do, i tried to do what i always ... " but they do know the words for "dream", "future", or "devil", and maybe -
Blog / Challenges
Hold your breath my first CPW
, which we do in 6.UAT to learn about things like recovery. What do you do ... performs the fastest, but has the most work to do during recovery. The ... apprehensions about MIT? Why do you value so-and-so attribute over so-and-so other -
Blog / MIT Life
making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester
not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you chose to learn for the maker space. Just for reference, I was doing the -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much
Filipino Students Association to decide what we were going to do this spring ... first weekend in a while that I felt like I didn’t do anything. Friday ... ’m taking. And I think this is pretty clearly a sign that I’m doing a lot. I -
Blog / Advice
Two Years and how it's changed me
much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself ... the people who live here, and the silly things that we do - but it ... possible. It's stigmatized for being a 'sellout' major that tons of people do -
Blog / Admissions
FAQ Wait list answers to your questions
means we really like you, and you do not need to improve on your ... other application doesn't impact your application. Whom do you admit ... over international students on the wait list? No, but we do consider -
Blog / Admissions
FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions
really like you, and you do not need to improve on your application. You ... other application doesn't impact your application. Whom do you admit ... over international students on the waitlist? No, but we do consider -
Blog / Admissions
Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions
new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your ... to receive the scores. Please do not rush report your scores. We ... scores that make you look best, and we do abide by Score Choice. Is it -
Blog / About Decisions
FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.
means we really like you, and you do not need to improve on your ... other application doesn't impact your application. Who do you admit ... over international students on the waitlist? No, but we do consider -
Blog / Admissions
Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime
things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with ... certainly get their fare share of study time, but they also do everything from