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  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  alums hack, punt, tool: 1. n old MIT saying about what MIT students do on ... Research Opportunity Program, as in doing research. 2. n an undergrad in a lab doing research. "So you’re the new urop?" 3. n the work assigned by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  whenever they do, it's an opportunity for me to venture down to 1E and hang ... . I take Spotify very seriously. One of the first things I do when I ... they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping or hang out. I'm doing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  kindnesses. what the living do. your quote collection kept you tethered in the ... you're terrible about setting boundaries, and when you do try to set ... walk all over you. the problem is that you know what you need to do to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  would burn out altogether. But there wasn’t much I could do about that, so ... ’re doing. I like organic chemistry.  We made cobalt complexes in chem lab ... class is nearly at the Terror. I’m doing the readings; I’m really glad I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is ... just do research forever. Here's to moving forward. I met a lot of ... do feel as though I’m at MIT. And it’s been fun, and been better than I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  classes, emailing professors, doing random errands, the last thing I want at ... like to pset together over zoom, but it hasn’t really worked for me"]do ... , whatever, I’ll just meet people in the spring. I’ll do a sort of half gap

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  corona-exodus, which left us with a big question: how do we run science ... them, training volunteers, and creating Zoom links. How do you even ... doing everything yourself — it’s about making sure everything gets done

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  do you care so much? You’re not American anyway. But I am black. Racism ... with protecting them, and while doing the most mundane of things- jogging ... friends are doing ok. We are all shaken to the core and disillusioned by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  behind this production, asked us if we could do the set design for this ... managed to do a great run-through under such circumstances, the content of ... having many side-jobs to pay tuition and consequently doing poorly in her

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  ="The attitude that your grades don't really matter and you should do the bare ... 21W minor. Apparently you can’t do that sort of thing in one day, but I ... for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). You basically do really

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  graduating this year. I can't wait to see them do amazing things out in the ... to leave a legacy" sense, but how to do my best to leave the school having made it better than when I arrived. Something I'd like to do is to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  , occasionally each app needs to do an update. And if you let the updates pile up, over, say, four months, then you have a lot of updates to do. And if you ... reboot, and do these updates one by one, and also think about why

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  's exactly what I'm doing! 17.447: Cybersecurity 21W.755: Writing and Reading ... together a portfolio), setting up informational interviews, doing (hopefully ... . I've been dabbling in guitar for a while, maybe it's time to do some

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  , I hope that you can do that too." i don't sleep with my grad rat on ... do on a day to day basis: try to make the world suck a little less ... everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  basic decision as Sam: whether to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do ... ? Do they even want to go to college, anymore?   Because these ... whether MIT students ever study abroad (they do). But not all disputes are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  me doing Big Things; in fact, you probably won’t find anything about me ... to do this whole application thing or not, so you’re waiting for ... into doing something with your life that will show Admissions that they

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  whatsoever about your love life. However, I do hope someone out there can ... with that person, etc etc. It turns out I do that with every boy I ... some point I was like wait do I? Yup, turns out I didn’t. So moving

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  learned that even GIR classes want you to do more than use the equations ... syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6 ... that’s kind of what everybody else wanted to do in a VR space too. The

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  focus, work hard, and do amazingly well? But then maybe you feel compelled ... predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... “never mind” on the whole “do amazingly well” thing. And then you ask, is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more ... around culture/current fulfillment? Again, not mutually exclusive. I do ... , something I think I could do one day; fulfillment = being an academic, which I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015