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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or ... comfortable with my skills I started doing some commission pieces for people on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I didn't want to do anything; I wanted to crawl into a hole and never ... work to do that night, according to my to-do list, but I didn't manage to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  work harder than I ever could before and do great things with my life. I ... hardest exams I've ever taken and I had to use everything I knew to do the ... here resulted in the lowest grade I've ever gotten. Doing preliminary

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  having fun. 5. If you are coming with your parents, make sure you do the events that YOU want to do. You're the one who'll be spending four years ... various events with clearly bored children. K: Do your own thing :D The

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... fair kid. I’d been doing a long series of projects on the effect of ... had an answer to my friend’s question, I think the question of “what do

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... ’m grateful to have as I begin this next chapter of my life. But I’ll let him do

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  the assurance and sense of purpose that drove you to follow it. Do it because you know you want to do it, not because of money or rankings or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different one. Sam told me that he was having trouble choosing what to do. He ... to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead ... different curricula, or climates, or financial aid packages? Do they even want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• 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 / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... -end."]front-end facing.[/annotation] How do you design an interface that makes ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• 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