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  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  I’d do a fun post about what’s in my bag (and on my person). The Bag ... black ink instead of pencil when I’m writing. I do sometimes keep white ... brands and very affordable. Maybe I should do a blog post about skincare

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  we did).  Do you ever meet young students on campus? Maybe 16-17 year olds? Do you think they would be accepted by classmates? Yes! My hall ... students do a capella and other musical things. I've been to several friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun ... : “Man you MIT kids ask the hardest questions. I don’t know, what do you ... you find in them the same magic I do): “You shouldn't worry about

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  CPW (the preview weekend in April), and on your own doing adult things ... literally in the perfect place to have too many things to do around off ... places I relax, and the things I do now in an environment far from home

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do ... what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... Gates has the same 24 hours that I do”. But I’m often still (still!) bad

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  't think we do that enough -- celebrate each other. so -- the class of 2017 ... thank you even more for doing something about it. i know so many of you that have worked hard to care for each other, doing the work of shaping

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  , I’m being given a lot more path-critical items to do, and as I ... scheme for the robot arm--basically, re-doing most of the math for how we ... Story Collider to do a show at the Oberon Theater near Harvard Square

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  't let people tell you what you can or can't do because of arbitrary ... think they do, and the world still turns and the sun still shines, and ... (where I am) in the morning. You get to decide what you will do today, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  to their needs, and we will continue to do so. I say to you what we ... students will not change. We will do everything we can that is legally ... the work we do in admissions, states that our mission is to "advance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... complain about not having opportunities or resources to do whatever it is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  MIT milestones often have something to do with 3.14159... 7 years ago ... feeling like it's an okay the best way to do life Chatting up classmates ... jampacked Macklemore spring concert Thinking I'm going to do pretty well in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  apart as we witness this and do nothing, change nothing, deny, grow ... straws, trying to understand, trying to find what to do, I am with you ... of Color After Psychological Trauma (and Other References) What to Do

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and ... lie within water and sanitation. He was hooked and he wanted to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  here are a few interesting items I'd forgotten about: "By the way, do ... too much of his talk but I think it had to do with behavioral economics ... ). Anyway, I think this quote refers to the idea that we do not exercise as

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  do this. Two important factors he stressed when evaluating a field are ... Startups survive on momentum.  How do you maintain momentum when you ... smaller wins - developing reusable rockets, for example. Why do this at all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... . Soon, people from throughout the Simmons community were doing whatever ... Simmons can do that well of a job of bringing people together. So thank you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  , do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their ... read essays titled things like "Do Machines Make History?" and "The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  people can’t do integrals. At this point, I ask myself a very fundamental ... five. We had to do integrals, with a time limit. If you got one wrong ... or very excited about integrals to fit in, do well, or have fun at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  -handed people have an advantage in combat. Why do we care about music? Why, in ... paints. Do we have an innate template for culture, from language to ... . Religion suggests oneness of the universe. Why not do away with the word

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• 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