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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... ) Walk to work. It really depends on the day, since I do production and ... job. 3. Hopefully what I’m doing will help kiddos realize that science

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies, and it has nothing to do with the fact that the word contains my name, I ... and you will be infinitely quenched and satisfied with things to do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  your adventure but I think this 12 step plan will do you some good too.   Find something to do. Generally speaking, your options are to intern, volunteer, or do research. Some options (at MIT) to help find

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  Night at Pops. Chris: What do you think are the most unique aspects (if ... ) is the amount of dedication they put to everything that they do, and ... relationships here, both in the practice rooms and out! Chris: What do you think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  by the freshman year, and what support do you give to help make that ... the hardest thing is which of them to explore. [...] We do things in the ... ." Prof. Drennan: "You will never do an acid-base titration at MIT." Goes on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  assignments a week to keep up with. I did not do a very good job of keeping up ... least committed class, and so I do the poorest in it and enjoy it the ... goal is to prove that you’ve been doing the homework and understand it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do ... complex than a positive thing."]when no one else is doing them ... in particular, and I do like making high-level plans to get things done

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  having a nice, productive discussion, emphasizing things that we can do ... upcoming renovations and what we can do about it. one of the most helpful ... that "what can we do" kind of discussion, was something our head of house

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... do my best to pay attention to the road instead of my phone, but my ... we make, about actively choosing to do the hard thing. I do my best to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  to every 24-hour day. How do   you use those extra sixty minutes? Sleep, obviously. What do you do to punt, de-stress, or reset, on or off the ... productive   time of day? When do you do your best work? I’m definitely not an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  realized that I could do algebra better than they did! So I became the person ... other. Disclaimer: I didn’t do that, and though I wish I’d branched out ... night, outside or inside your room, on- or off-campus, etc. Do that, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  "words of comfort" - they are advice to help you do well. If I had to pick ... should know about the interview is that... 0. Do It! If you're offered an ... you should do some preparation work beforehand. Some good topics

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... freshman year about myself, some things I’m doing differently now, and some ... /gym"]Z[/annotation]. In the beginning, I thought that this was amazing. If I was going to do

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours ... morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube ... do solve my little cube. I enjoy the pillowy softness of my lotion when

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  having to work out a plan for me to do the requisite work during IAP ... doing well in all of my classes, but I felt somewhat that my hand had also ... —especially at this school—to forget that they are doing really difficult things

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  — the feeling of thinking something is impossible, and then doing it anyway. Sometimes even doing it well. It’s my addiction, every semester ... justifications: that I can’t write consistently at MIT anyway so why not do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  wish I had no work today i don't feel like doing schoolwork anymore. not ... about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work ... researching what different programming language implementations do. but when it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... interview. Our current process does not require you to do this. After you

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... , doing laundry regularly), and worse at the things I used to do

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  ’m currently thinking through - when I write (or do any other public work), how much do I care about changing other peoples’ minds vs focusing solely on ... their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022