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• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  either doing FPOPS, or they're international students or athletes. Everyone ... "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate," which Sam has already alluded to ... experience than by doing something on that list?" It's not like I had anything

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  be good roommates, good mentors, good friends. We do not admit test ... . I was doing a regional reception in a city a few years back, and ... about who you are, what you can do, what kind of stuff gets you excited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  the most fulfilling things I do here at MIT and I really have loved ... advisor: How do I know what to take this year? For starters, CJ has an ... idea what you want to do at MIT and (2) is a manageable schedule with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  honest, I didn’t quite know where to start. Do I talk about the Muslim Student Association? Do I talk about the prayer space that’s a short walk away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , I do think there is a meaning of life. I wrote three years ago, back ... , "here's something I'm mad about and here's what I'm going to do," I'm always thinking, "and then what?" How do we get from a point where you do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  to all the course content but you do not need to do any work for the class or take any exams and you do not get a grade ... a lot.  I didn’t do that well in the class but had a good experience

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  "locked" in a room with 500 applications. Do you think this opening ... 's 45 words too. Do you think the admissions committee will remember this ... whole life doing it? At first Jennifer said no, but after more questioning

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer ... ? You just do plane mechanics. Also what is mechanical engineering? 3 ... goal-guy Do NOT disrespect the apparatus like that 9. Mendel's Laws Are

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  that they provide a reminder that the vast majority of those who do this ... ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  school would incur wild errors – and I would never know what I was doing ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me ... to do something, and the result of physics felt a little too close to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  ="111203" image3="111200" image4="111201" image5="111202" /] I do enjoy this class ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the ... class is review and we do practice problems at whiteboards, I feel like I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  of my other 7 semesters, this semester is one that I can do whatever I ... eventually ;)"]life in Japan[/annotation]7 months from now? What do I want my ... and it’s also fun to muse about them, but [annotation note="To do this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the ... just starting to study and trying to do well, I immediately decided it would be best to spend an hour doing phone-app math to find my current

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  " dictate how cool you are. You gain aura points when you do something cool and socially confident, and you lose points when you do something cringe ... kind of fire. But then I had no idea what to do for my last pitch. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  overbooked, but this is entirely of my own doing. I have a ton of blog posts ... doing their shows remotely, and we're still working on getting the number

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  resources that MIT promised, I was excited to start doing “real work”, and the ... physics phenomena. [annotation note="this isn’t to say that doing the ... reared its head: in industry, how do you incorporate scientific discoveries

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  the trajectory and distance traveled as we do on the heights achieved ... something more concrete along the lines of "do this" or "don’t do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling ... great game for the mind and body and I want to do it more. [carousel ... me and my friends have to do some food making. Here is some food that

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  edge of what is survivable? Do we plant our cacti where there used to be ... pilgrimage to each coffee shop I love, wondering as I do if it will be the last ... around. The desert survived; that’s what it evolved to do. It kept on after

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  graffiti, but you can't be home again. from homestuck: TT: Please do not do this, Dirk. TT: Why not?? TT: Because. TT: I do not want to die. TT: I

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023