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  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  time had to do with what the ECs look for, what questions they ask and ... but I do know that every time I checked with the EC about the interview ... about what you like best about the things you do. An EC told me recently

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... Boston Metro provided me with a lot of things to do like leavn about

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... MIT on a moment's notice and still do an okay job. And people laughed at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... , which means I don't actually have to do the work for the class, I can just

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  here's the thing about improv companies. the thing they do most often ... doing improv was a lot of fun, so i tried auditioning for a few groups myself. most of the process consisted of taking a video of myself doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... really mean to exist in this world as an adult” and “what do I owe to the ... greater purpose... it feels so overwhelmingly selfish to do nothing but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I ... School What do you do there? Do full-time astronomy research, take some ... name like: "Dr. Anna Ho" or "Anna Ho, Ph.D." Pretty sweet. How long do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading ... experiments... and earning 12 units of credit for it. (You can do a UROP for pay ... and apathetic to complete. But I have to do it by the end of the month

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... that many of us actually do significant extracurricular stuff. Two things ... school, right? Okay, wrong. There's definitely time to do an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about ... communities do you most value being a part of?" But often, discussion strays ... them too hard. As long as I distract myself by doing things, I won't have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to do anything at all, panic, and calm apathy, terror at the prospect of ... motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  concrete goals for things I want to do, both for my job and for other things ... fun things to do, getting ahead on your classes - or taking ... do. I learned my lesson hard after freshman summer, in which the only

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  of doing a blog that's just like, conversations i've been having with ... 's weird that i'm here almost as a vacation r: i'm curious do you on campus people ever refer to your dorm as home m: i personally do though some

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  , don't worry. Do not worry about your recommendations ... yet. They do not need to be in by midnight. We are processing thousands ... , you do not need to do anything special. Please do not rush report your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate deal with no longer having all this at their fingertips? how do people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... , we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  continue doing so until I'm nothing but a head and some hands. I am tired, a ... wick has ran out? I'm not sure what to do. I ask my friends, "What can I do to fix this?" and they look at me with sad eyes. What can I do to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  ado... How do I meet know more people (To new friendships! A special ... significant other asked me, "How do I meet more people?” Except, I think what he really meant was, “How do I know more people?”, because in my experience

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  , just be sure to designate MIT to receive the scores. Please do not rush ... science). We only use the scores that make you look best, and we do abide by ... the deadline, but do not expect that your request will be granted. If

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  so difficult? We’ve all been in the position of trying to do a group ... was often harder than actually doing the research and presentation ... did we exactly need from him?" Just tell him what to do and then he

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015