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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... knew that if I thought too hard about it, I wouldn't do it - so I put ... . L, put my trumpet to my mouth, do my thing until the rest of the band

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  . Forgot what I was doing for this code assignment and totally lost? STUPID ... say I can’t go to this event I had said I was going to, I do it, because ... ;   And I know, that I wanted to be faster, smarter, to do all the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... 't matter as much as what you do with the opportunities you're given there

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider, for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you ... "]UROP?[/annotation] B: Because I need a job. A: Why do you need a job? B: Because I need

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... do it if I tried, but I’m just not trying hard enough. When I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... . We do our weekly meeting on Tuesdays (called Cruesdays) in the student

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  ’t work, or is inefficient. Maybe you spend a lot of time doing problems you know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do ... key while doing practice tests. Yes, a poor performance can sometimes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011