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  In Stereo

  

  visited my high school, not even the state/local colleges. I do remember ... small number of high schools that I do each year, I'll often feel a little ... what we are doing with our time in the fall. Our small admissions office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and sometimes even while doing psets. It’s something I’ve been doing since middle ... MIT. Why do I listen to so many audiobooks? I think part of the reason

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . No way, I said. I'm not trying to do anything extraordinary, I just want to live a calm life and do a little science while I'm at it. We had ... do anything particularly extraordinary, but saying that I wasn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for ... envisioned. But what I want to tell you, is that you didn't do anything wrong ... instead you had chosen to not do *insert thing that became a fundamental

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  from 1-4 on MWF and 1-2 on TR Do homework and sit with friends from ... slots for when I can do fun things, like that nice slot from 2pm to 5pm on ... commitments to figure out if there's anything I can do to better spend my time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  for the MIT community when I say this: I really hope we do right by all ... most trusted inner-circle made my stomach do flips, and don’t even ... together that weekend. I wanted to do those things so badly, but whenever I

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  about my exam, I will certainly feel worse than if I do literally anything else. I could study, I could sleep, or I could do something else entirely. There are many things I can do, things I can make, and places I can go to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... ) Walk to work. It really depends on the day, since I do production and ... job. 3. Hopefully what I’m doing will help kiddos realize that science

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  your adventure but I think this 12 step plan will do you some good too.   Find something to do. Generally speaking, your options are to intern, volunteer, or do research. Some options (at MIT) to help find

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  Night at Pops. Chris: What do you think are the most unique aspects (if ... ) is the amount of dedication they put to everything that they do, and ... relationships here, both in the practice rooms and out! Chris: What do you think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  assignments a week to keep up with. I did not do a very good job of keeping up ... least committed class, and so I do the poorest in it and enjoy it the ... goal is to prove that you’ve been doing the homework and understand it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do ... complex than a positive thing."]when no one else is doing them ... in particular, and I do like making high-level plans to get things done

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  having a nice, productive discussion, emphasizing things that we can do ... upcoming renovations and what we can do about it. one of the most helpful ... that "what can we do" kind of discussion, was something our head of house

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... do my best to pay attention to the road instead of my phone, but my ... we make, about actively choosing to do the hard thing. I do my best to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  realized that I could do algebra better than they did! So I became the person ... other. Disclaimer: I didn’t do that, and though I wish I’d branched out ... night, outside or inside your room, on- or off-campus, etc. Do that, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  "words of comfort" - they are advice to help you do well. If I had to pick ... should know about the interview is that... 0. Do It! If you're offered an ... you should do some preparation work beforehand. Some good topics

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... freshman year about myself, some things I’m doing differently now, and some ... /gym"]Z[/annotation]. In the beginning, I thought that this was amazing. If I was going to do

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours ... morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube ... do solve my little cube. I enjoy the pillowy softness of my lotion when

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  having to work out a plan for me to do the requisite work during IAP ... doing well in all of my classes, but I felt somewhat that my hand had also ... —especially at this school—to forget that they are doing really difficult things

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022