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• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  whole point of going here.  There are 22+ majors, and if you do a quick ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of ... starts with doing excellent work, but it extends beyond that. It requires

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  ISOs, and you want to do smart nerdy things with smart nerdy people, you ... hospitality I was shown. I don't know where I will go next. All I can do - all anyone can do - is try to put themselves in new, occasionally uncomfortable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do ... of where you come from." I'm still doing that a little bit. I still ... I'm going to try. *I actually took notes everywhere. I do that in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... tolerance for discomfort. It sucks in the moment, but lets you do cool things

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  they) taught me to see it. When I do the best I can, reading applications ... thing to do is, however naive and unreachable that hope might be, it's in ... whatever you do next.   The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  campus, since that's one of the hardest things to do when the semester is ... time at MIT when I'm doing things completely unrelated to classes. I ... doing that.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  doing homework with them and talking until too late. It’s about the way ... want to tell so much, but where do I even start? Perhaps with the first ... waffles and socialization. Then I will do math. And I will be very very

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  can do any of that, I need to learn some German. Fulbright agrees, so ... cochlear implants, a biochemist is doing research on multiple sclerosis, a ... class, he wasn’t my advisor, I wasn’t doing research with him. But we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  like to do sometimes when no one is watching) since winter break so to ... apartment, all I wanted to do was eat nectarines (which, by the way, are ... penchant for working far more during the holidays than I ever do during the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  't have anything to do, I felt guilty - like I should be doing work or ... times I don't want to be anywhere else. I do belong here, after all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  time to do things that would let me relax like baking, drawing, and ... Nati, I'm kind of taking this semester to do the things that I enjoy doing and recuperate. Since I've been here, I got into running

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  I do okay - I've been really nervous! But I am taking it with my good friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well ... doing all the problem sets super early, so I hope it goes okay! Other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  and wearing a MAGfest badge. Me: Hey! Do we have a fridge in our room ... "are there fridges in these rooms?" and not "do we have a fridge in the ... favorite character from a video game you have to do it exactly right or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  , etc.) of the My Little Pony show or franchise. They typically do not ... go and watch MLP to find out for yourself ;) Doing a humanized (or ... what I can do. And another thing. Some of my friends decided the outfit

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  recommenders may use any one of these systems. Emphasis on one: please do not ... extra mail and faxes. And if your teachers do use fax or mail, remember ... consider these applications anew. In order to do that, we need to archive and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  friends can't be that hard. All you have to do is say hi, shake hands, and ... do social things it enjoys--singing, for example, or dancing, and ... they don't tell you is that doing so is sometimes not so much like a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one I struggled with the most. When you're in classes all day and doing ... for me is to do work as early as possible to minimize the late nights

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  /I am going to do that day, we do it (normally something involving copious ... sitting here for? Go do something! ^.^

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent 2: Do you have DNA in your ears? Me: ....excuse me? TSA Agent 2: DNA ... to stop please just let me know and i would be happy to do so. at any ... lounging in the grass: I need to do that way more often.   Plans

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  surrounded her, some standing and some kneeling, and sang “Do You Believe in ... one thing to do Three words for you: I love you There's only one way to say Those three words, and that's what I'll do: I love you They gave

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013