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  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  't understand, we decided to do a "no breaks" climb every 10 climbs. Sure enough ... people doing low reps than Beast, these gains were erased by the 2 people ... 's Hex team, I'll be focusing my energy on recruiting people willing to do

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  checked off only about half of my to-do list. At some point, I escaped to ... of things to do is completely checked off. Or someone reminds me to ... either treat my day as a long list of things to do or just that, a day.  A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  ’m doing something different. This year, I’m chairing McCormick Hall’s CPW ... boy, do they look AMAZING. One of our chairs, our RLAD and our Head of ... work that goes in on the students’ part. And we do it because we enjoy it

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  picnics and do outdoorsy things, and when it's snowing people build igloos and have snowball fights- all pretty standard things to do. But CPW is ... was INCREDIBLE. So we are really excited to see what they do this year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  told, I haven’t necessarily had to do before. In the end, the month was ... ’s discretion. There were a lot of time where I wanted to stop doing some of my ... could do as good as possible on my exams and make sure I was learning

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  ) GTL (Global Teaching Labs –– we sure do love our acronyms), teaching ... host. As I’m sure you noticed, most had to do with food, which was a very prized part of the Italian experience, and even tourists had to do it right

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  like playing video games, like Smash and Breath of the Wild. I like doing ... else do I do... I like designing outfits. And helping other people

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  we did).  Do you ever meet young students on campus? Maybe 16-17 year olds? Do you think they would be accepted by classmates? Yes! My hall ... students do a capella and other musical things. I've been to several friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun ... : “Man you MIT kids ask the hardest questions. I don’t know, what do you ... you find in them the same magic I do): “You shouldn't worry about

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  CPW (the preview weekend in April), and on your own doing adult things ... literally in the perfect place to have too many things to do around off ... places I relax, and the things I do now in an environment far from home

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do ... what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... Gates has the same 24 hours that I do”. But I’m often still (still!) bad

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  , I’m being given a lot more path-critical items to do, and as I ... scheme for the robot arm--basically, re-doing most of the math for how we ... Story Collider to do a show at the Oberon Theater near Harvard Square

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  't let people tell you what you can or can't do because of arbitrary ... think they do, and the world still turns and the sun still shines, and ... (where I am) in the morning. You get to decide what you will do today, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  to their needs, and we will continue to do so. I say to you what we ... students will not change. We will do everything we can that is legally ... the work we do in admissions, states that our mission is to "advance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... complain about not having opportunities or resources to do whatever it is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  apart as we witness this and do nothing, change nothing, deny, grow ... straws, trying to understand, trying to find what to do, I am with you ... of Color After Psychological Trauma (and Other References) What to Do

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and ... lie within water and sanitation. He was hooked and he wanted to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  here are a few interesting items I'd forgotten about: "By the way, do ... too much of his talk but I think it had to do with behavioral economics ... ). Anyway, I think this quote refers to the idea that we do not exercise as

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  do this. Two important factors he stressed when evaluating a field are ... Startups survive on momentum.  How do you maintain momentum when you ... smaller wins - developing reusable rockets, for example. Why do this at all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... . Soon, people from throughout the Simmons community were doing whatever ... Simmons can do that well of a job of bringing people together. So thank you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016