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  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  after the Regular Action deadline) is what applicants should do now that ... do that. It's called @tinycarebot, and it is a Twitter bot that MIT Ph ... @tinycarebot to remind him and his Twitter followers to do nice things for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the ... people do come here with their hearts set on building robots and stuff, but for those who aren't quite sure of what to do, I would suspect that the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when ... scary as hell. So what do I want to be when I grow up? Part of me is ... POLYMERS and CATS." Really. All I want to do is have my cat (and maybe

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to do, then get off and let the next person on.   MIT helped advance a ... share the same computer to do computations without leaving their seat

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  this look easy (and do amazing, amazing work). Some important questions you can finally have answered: how do computers compute? how do braces work? what about invisibility cloaks? why do we have snot? why do we fart?

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  . swear at deer eating plants. do other stuff.  eh." "Wow Snively, you ... ranks in Waze), I'm doing pretty well! I summarized my life after school in my last blog post so I'll just do some quick updates this time

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  should do as soon as we got there.     This year, I got a ... out your hair while doing PSets? It's a good thing that my very job for ... about meal plans, housing, dorm life, UROPs, and things to do for fun. One

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  contained this bit of dialogue Friend: Hey Nat, when do you head over to ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and ... brother on the blogs but I do have an awesome 23 year old brother

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  community, and your portfolio will demonstrate your (in)ability to do this ... well, and who will do so frequently. If writing is a chore, so will blogging be; if writing is something you find yourself doing for fun anyway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something ... being a second semester senior. I don’t quite know what to do with myself ... .013: Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design Lab. Instead of doing a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  full fledged business plans, much of the class has to do with exuding ... confident executive urged us to do: with BOLDNESS, CONFIDENCE, PASSION, FOCUS ... variable isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing (hint: you're doing it

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  applications have been read. So don't worry. At this time, do not send a ... time, please do not call or email to inquire about missing documents. The ... to call, basically all we could do is tell you that MyMIT is up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  science. Perhaps it had to do with the fact that my dad was an engineer and my mom was a biochemist. Perhaps it had to do with all that tinkering I used to do with Tinker Toys and K’nex. Perhaps it was DESTINY. Whatever

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  knows what it will be this year.) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete the ... application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  'm struggling with the most - I feel like we can never do enough, and yet I want to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room ... . I wish there was more that we could do. But there is also the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  who knows what it will be this year) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete ... application, or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  through break. Do I have a physics project too? Not at all :) I'm spending ... near future are largely expected. And dreaded. 5. I can do laundry. I'm notoriously awful at doing my laundry on a regular basis. I basically wait until

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  information. Why do we do this? Well, it's really just for us to keep track of ... certainly a valid question, as some colleges do track this type of information ... the recruitment we're doing is working, and how we can potentially

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  sell on the let’s-do-something-besides-work front. Anyways, the problem ... with my usual black North Face. (No, I do not usually go out in public ... . Sarah: hey, do you still have my genes? could I get them back sometime? me

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... a certain temperature, start doing weird things--like having 0 ... recharged infinite times without losing charge density. Circuits that do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009