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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... school, I'd go to the library and do work in this school, I'd go to sleep ... commitments. (Why else do we have regrets?) We, external observers, see Wheeler

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere ... piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... ”--our family in Ethiopia, and how they were doing, who was doing what. My cousins

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than ... 's motto is learn anything, teach anything, do anything, and we really mean ... possibility. Imagine what we could do if we didn't have to worry about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ? Learn anything The extracurricular he really likes doing Hi, are you ... anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  the technological one. People are looking at the things their doing in ... from Google Earth to help with comparing to how it looks today ... the science occurring at MIT than our modern tours do. By watching this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  classes there, and if you do well enough in their classes you’re basically ... . It’s built to be part time, it’s right up the street (I tend to do ... for my plans. Do as much as I can and learn as much as I can at Akamai

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing ... books and do the things I wanted. To some extent, I did. I was ... maps instead of Google, and drove 100 miles in the wrong direction) and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list happened :) Some commentary - THINGS I DID DO (yellow) 1. Pull an all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of stuff your brain *thinks* you can do. When you cram those years with stuff ... pains you've ached. The hard things you can do that you didn't even know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  of bridges, had to design theoretical bridges, and will continue to do ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... thought it best to walk him across the bridge so he wouldn’t have to do it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  .08, after Raymond and Aiden had convinced me that I should just do it because ... hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... . I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it. And I did! [embed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry, whether I’m moved, frustrated, or sad. There’s one Google Search Story that gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  .02 (Calculus), and MAS.110 (Media Design). You can Google each of my classes and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for things I could do to find out what it's like to be an astronomer ... Dumbledore. WHAT?! I was stunned. What. A. Ridiculously. Nice. Thing. To. Do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I’ve ever written. Therefore, even though…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... school. Just tell me what I need to do, their eyes implore, and I will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  helping him. His dad says: Watch what the people do. Watch how they get on ... flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... not, you can observe and extrapolate. Watch what people do, and take

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... ME: no it's fred FROSH: but ME: fred * * * FROSH: so where do you ... right?? FROSH: what hall do you live on? ME: 5th west FROSH: oh i don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things ... would suggest: Learn to prioritize and balance. YOU CAN NOT DO ... should do… Pursue areas of genuine interest (or dare I say, passion). If

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... activities you choose to do, the major you choose to pursue, the classes you ... the first place."]in your hands.[/annotation] You should do your best to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021