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  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... have the same interests that you do, and a place where you feel belonged ... ; Tricks Do ask good questions (that aren't on the website) Campus visits

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer ... that this was what I wanted to do, I discussed the process with my mentor ... doing research. Gradually, the blurry outlines of A Competitive Applicant

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  this looming feeling that there's something I ought to be doing. That's not to say that I never have time to do fun stuff - but I have time to do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  academic masochist. Wait, what's that? You like doing all that work for ... doing things you love? No you don't. Admission officers and bloggers have ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... comments and questions! Please continue to do so...or, if you're lurking, don ... : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  only do you move on to campus earlier and get more time to get acquainted ... . I finally was honest with myself and realized that I wanted to do something ... 's presence and it's really nice and wholesome. I do not regret those late

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  when I decided to do this program. What about the academics? Did you ... that I didn't do my work at Cambridge, but it meant I could focus on ... other topics with my supervisor, and I've gotten a lot out of doing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’s not a one-time decision.  These days, I instead regularly ask, “What do I want?” What do I want to be, to do, to give attention to? It sounds ... do I want?  Long story short, on the job front, I decided to pivot

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  thing to do at the time, in some sense it was the right thing to do at the ... ceilings because I kept walking and will continue to do so. There are no ... with one of my favorite quotes. “Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to ... this one. I loathe attending its mandatory lectures. I will likely do ... lecture. I don't do a single reading. I go to recitation and look at optical

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  ’re really too young to sound that old,”  ...and maybe I really do have too ... haven’t gotten over that yet. I didn’t do terribly well in my classes last ... affected me at all, because there were people who managed to do an incredible

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  assignments and learning content makes it so that you have to keep doing assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you ... does that matter? You’re here now. me: but there’s people who can do

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  sleep deprivation and procrastination. I stayed up late to do my work, got ... to process STEM-related content in the mornings than at night. Doing ... in the laundry basket. Doing this is just a lot of effort, especially

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  rebellious for staying up so late, although I do not know who I was rebelling ... -motivated work). But in the times when these pressures do exist, and I am not as ... ’m doing it right. I mean, the tangible steps part of this theory is great

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  going through the syllabus and a couple minutes doing introductions, we did some warm-ups. the professor asks us to stand up, and i do, and tells us to just shake our body around, and i do, and to pay attention

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  , because my boyfriend is doing GTL and SO MANY of my friends are gone as well ... fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison ... 's work i want to be doing, and not another soul-sucking pset that i have to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  ’ll do awesome things. i wish i’d known earlier that good colleges aren ... to bet that some fresh air and a fresh perspective would do you some ... mind, but live in the present. Enjoy what you do and the people you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  maneuvering, every conversation drifts gravitationally toward "So what do you do ... about. (I've become pretty desperate to avoid this. Things to do when you ... the MIT. Certainly not everyone's like this, not every "So what do you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your cat/dog need a house? Build it a cat/dog house! Do you need a particle

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  your body is saying, “Can we do this?? No, we can’t!!” (Also quick ... just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the ... over you, and all you can do is pass the ball. It’s hard to see past the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016