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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... comments and questions! Please continue to do so...or, if you're lurking, don ... : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’s not a one-time decision.  These days, I instead regularly ask, “What do I want?” What do I want to be, to do, to give attention to? It sounds ... do I want?  Long story short, on the job front, I decided to pivot

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  thing to do at the time, in some sense it was the right thing to do at the ... ceilings because I kept walking and will continue to do so. There are no ... with one of my favorite quotes. “Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024