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  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  answering some of the following questions: 1. Do people swim faster in water ... nagging scientific questions above? Battle on, reader. 1. Do people swim ... , thus... doing something economical) has been recognized. The cool thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  for a MIT ID number. Do I have such , or how could I obtain MIT ID ... research in high school. I hope, though, that you're doing the research ... . Best thing to do is to visit both if you're admitted and experience both

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  blog topics, though. As for your second question, we do consider ... applicant's control. For freshman applicants, we do expect that students are ... do? Will they get mad if I call about it? I don't know why I didn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  can do much more, particularly when working on hardware-focused teams ... wiring harnesses, assemble the boxes, and do full integration tests with ... emotional encouragement that I could do it. Transitioning from student to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so ... months, all I’d wanted to do was leave. Now, I had a chance to do so early ... wouldn’t be able to call what I was doing “moving out” anymore: instead, I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  don’t throw up. If you keep doing that you’re going to throw up. Don ... , “Ana doesn’t throw up.” “Do you want to hear something cursed?” I asked ... because I know the consequences of settling in. Because that’s what you do

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  doing projects for my HASS classes, and twice a week I’d sit down to grind ... classes or projects. [carousel image1="70864" image2="70865" /] "Do I even ... Ruby do most of it.” It’s okay to struggle with something, my mom said

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  quantum and just spend time doing the math of it rather than just the "pop ... to do this even with my classes with asynchronous options, but there is ... past three” is one of them. today i was doing 20 squats with a friend and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  you cry, makes you laugh. We wanted to learn how to do that. MIT has ... , here actually do learn this skill directly through MIT courses. CAD ... different visual effects. We do wish that the computer science department at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  rough, but I got to do it with friends. I have never removed that much ... finished was, “How can I do this?” This year, I found out. I got to give CPW ... was truly scary. I couldn’t do that, not at this point. Thank every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  about writing one or trying to contribute, to do the work to untangle my ... going to be a very different post) I...couldn't do it. I really just ... her and heard her story that I had been doing, all this time, exactly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions ... classes do not contribute to your GPA. Freshman spring you will start

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  ?” “What does MIT do as part of it?” and “How can it help me?” Well, the short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our ... -town and rural areas—have been doing to support rural high schoolers

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  worst fear...   8.01 (Physics I) What I would do to not have to do ... "get the right answer", 8.01 is "do you understand this through vector ... section twice a week to review the video content and do practice problems

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  doing this kind of stuff, but I quickly got the hang of it again and was ... people who study how to use small things to do big things. And I mean very ... four businesses are: Draper (they do space stuff I think). Hitachi

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  turn on lights, make things move, and make computers think and do things ... more ways to do both! We also learned how to use computers to lay out ... needs to be able to do (such as read, write, and store bits). If something

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... ’t intend this post as advice for younger students, but I do want to put out some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  all about writing papers and my HASS is just like “do these constrained optimization problems by Sunday.”[annotation note="to be fair, we do also read ... HASSes. I feel like I should have to do more reading and writing to receive

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  darlings for nothing! sometimes the work you do, whether it's writing, music ... them, but I almost never do.  Well, what’s a better time than now? Since ... the things I would accomplish and do, with the money I earned from my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... something that I could actually do when I saw a post my boyfriend's sister had ... experience, so the first thing I think I'm going to do [annotation note="At the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021