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  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. '26
  • 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
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  on occasion. The reasons anyone stops doing something that mattered to ... god, it’s Valentine's day. Do you really miss your ex? Yeah, you do. You ... should go home, even if you’ll feel like a failure for doing so… it could

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  to do something about next summer, so I applied to eleven internships ... was supposed to do some work for Splash, considering that it's happening ... couldn't find any motivation. All I want to do right now is lie down. Not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  social media posts and do some ~research~ like things for MSEF and it ... between urgent reminders to please for god's sake do your psets you dirty ... and it became a game of "So what do you love the least?", like asking to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  admittedly do not know all of the answers. Thus, I thought I’d be transparent ... identity and applying to college.   Why do we ask? When we are ... to who they are as a person as we try to learn more about them. Do you

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... this person is doing xyz, I should also be doing xyz”) and an internal desire (“omg this person is doing xyz, wouldn’t it be so cool if I could

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  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 / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  finally got the budget and the design firm to do it right, and I'll be ... the new website and what we do -- but as we think about how we help our ... 's what we want to do: figure out how to best meet our goals as per above

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... going to do with our lives the question becomes infinitely more difficult ... require formal education, if so how many years, do you need an MD, do you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• 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