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  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  worry came in not finding anything to do back home. I didn’t exactly want ... ’m doing are super exciting. I have one other big goal this summer. For the past two or so years, I’ve held myself in a tug-of-war between doing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’ll help me figure out what I want to do with my life. If I get through the ... status early), which basically means that if I do bad in the class, it won ... a required class for my major, so I’m going to do my best and hope for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a ... idea you could even do when I first came. Global Teaching Labs (GTL) This ... to find out about it…but they do exist. Some specific departments

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  that I do not regret, for one second, taking 6.005: Elements of Software ... regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... caution to everyone heading into college, or currently there: don’t do it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... fairs. One nice part about this year's career fair is that we do get the ... 're on PNR, you technically could put 5.0/5.0 as your GPA. Up top, I do

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  management experience, nor do I have any Course 6 experience aside from AP Comp ... realize I don't know what I want to do in life. Great. So I start filling ... completed resume. Nor do I have fancy shmancy stuff to wear.   D-1: 3

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  all of my graduation prereqs, so it was just a matter of doing all of my ... doubt about the decisions I made and still do question if I made the right ... blast doing it. I've always been a performer and wanted to end up in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was ... textbook. You won’t regret it. But what does this have to do with Linked ... macros. But when anyone asks me what I’m doing this summer, I tell them

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  decision”) on your screen. So you wait a bit longer. That’s all you can do ... , you’ll do amazing things anyway.” I can show you all the world ... impending success at whatever you choose to do. Because, you know, it does

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... here.  Don't waste it doing activities you could do in your parents

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  how awkward my body is. My stance is haphazard. What do I do with my hands? My voice sounds the same no matter what I try to do with it. My ... others began to do the same; then, after looking at a wall of problems, we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  at 21cm wavelengths. "Why the heck do hydrogen atoms emit at 21cm ... ; the particles aren't actually whirling around the same way that you do ... spins do matter to the hydrogen atom. If the particles are spinning in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  they would do, including: Create a blacklist of banned websites ... do not intend to infringe. I intend to educate. With good intent, I can ... . And we do that by allowing a lot of students to write freely about their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  record a class and do it over. After a frightening semester of flying ... let the heaviness of my fears of having to do complicated calculations ... whenever I had too much else to do that night, or if I simply wasn't feeling

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  from an airplane descending in free-fall, go connect with new friends. Do ... when you do, either! Enforce a separation of work and play, and know whom ... easier to simply channel yourself through what you do. It's a guiding

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... guys you jam with when you don’t feel like doing work, and you ... much work either of you have to do – you always talk to about your day at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  you at MIT?"). But, I do feel that the HASS department is MIT's hidden ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... Social Sciences). Pet Peeve: HASS classes do not guarantee automatic As

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  . In fact, if you don't do any Rush as a freshman then YOU'RE DOING IT ... fraternities...how many boys choose not to join one and what do they miss out on ... getting a bid. That's right, I spent 2 weeks with this fraternity, doing

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  Red Line), which would raise the question of what they were doing there ... their dorm phones, even though we do have one for each room (or you should ... , are doing, actually). Ben says he got an A in the course. If Paul does

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008