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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  a pre-lifting state. But, I’m doing it. Again. My first day back, in ... that hurt my whole body. I had broken so much of sweat doing it that my ... all too familiar. Standing there, too afraid to grab the bar and just do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  else to do. I felt so desperate to get the words out, yet so gut ... anywhere. When I finally did it, do you know what the words that came out ... home, sexual orientation labels do not exist. It wouldn’t even make sense

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... several ways: Do you care that my family was affected my gang and gun ... then had it disbanded because of problematic school administrators? Do

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  resources to do so and still remain a productive member of a company ... reflected accordingly. After I took the time to just do some basic research ... and otherwise) workplace, it seems bizarrely simple. Of course women do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  , knowledgeable MIT students might do, which was not sleep. You’d be surprised how ... doing it. This was me. I wasn’t sleeping properly for about a month ... to sleep even less because it took me longer to do my work, so I’d wake

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only ... do, to your colleagues and to the source of your funding. And it’s your responsibility to effectively translate what you do to the public, to do what you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  questions that are much more ambiguous and even more important. What do I want ... exploring? What jobs should I be looking at? Do I even want an employer, or ... offered at MIT, how do I want to spend my free time? How do I want to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do with the actual work I am doing. Nervous and excited on the first day, I ... ’t always have to be that extreme. I get the sense that people here do see me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one ... do a SuperUROP next semester but I'm pushing it off until I have more ... students to do some form of formalized job or else feel like they'll be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  common question I get about the class: no, you do not have to draw your ... thing she wanted to do more and then sort of throwing herself at it. She ... concept of devoting yourself to something you love and making a living doing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  (READ: PLEASE DO NOT ACTUALLY WRITE LIKE THIS) Q1. Describe the world you ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in ... somehow (either from the prep side or the admin side), 3) do a law program

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  ’s…logistically inconvenient. I think it’s something I’d regret not doing later…” If I could go ... pink slippers the next time you do your laundry." Unfortunately I can ... hosts, Peter, asked “do you like bubbles?” I said yes, and he replied

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  part of my major, and after this it gets a lot better.  I really do feel ... actually never thought I could do it.  I thought that MIT didn't give A's for ... reports, and every once in a while they do it! My third technical class was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the things I absolutely love to do: Blogging. I love sharing my stories ... weekend, and I know that we'll do awesome.   Caving At the beginning

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  opportunity for you to shoot off questions to helpful strangers. And you can do ... to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  about computers? Do you….do you see what I did there?). This of course ... valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of ... already knew how to do things when they were easy for me, but I didn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  speakers took turns answers some tough questions, like "How do Christians ... cells doing their thing actually creates a new person. That's pretty ... . Responses to comments: Isshak said: do you like to read Kafka ? You should

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... units above - isn't really the best idea. (Neither is doing 60 units

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  do athletics have anything to do with the undergrad admissions process ... 't get you into MIT on its own, but like anything else you may do well ... area where interviews aren't available. Would I be able to do the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  there's one thing I don't want to do after getting home late, it's study ... position. I had friends who were doing "research" jobs at OSU which basically ... research position -- as you probably already know, about 80% of us do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006