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• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  understand that they don’t actually have to do anything just because I told them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then will only do the bare minimum that could be considered “sitting

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  the feeling of constant creation, of always writing or coding or doing ... about doing next, because there's always something to do next. here's two ... learn this internship? and my manager asks me things like, what do you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... fully aware of the nature of the world can do that. but once you realize ... first i said i wanted a system to decide when to do things for myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do, but they didn’t really know what I should do either, because they knew ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... myself actual food." I'd say that during the semesters, I do an okay job

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  class, but I do build things on my own time! Currently, I'm trying to make ... estimate of RPM by getting the pitch of the sound being produced! I'm doing ... how likely I am to Do A Thing today, we can ~extrapolate~. To figure out

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... on what applicants could do to help themselves with the application ... do with email:  To the extent you can, you should try to use one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  and think about what I want to do with my life. So this summer, working ... this past year. And wow, have I grown. What have I been doing? So many ... that prevented me from doing this during the semester, admittedly; it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  come next. So, I've just been... doing what I can. Getting through each ... wanted to know was, how does it make me feel? I think I'll have to do ... version is that I'm still going strong. My sourdough starter is doing very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  were busier than usual, but I didn't notice since I was doing, uh, the same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... Saturday, which is usually the day I dedicate to doing pretty much 0 work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you ... hidden gems around here. I won't spoil anything, but I do recommend

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  to it, although the learning curve was pretty steep and i had to do two ... i do say so myself[/caption] here's an animated version of it because ... love to do a thesis on final fantasy 7 (somehow). reading cracking the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  . However, my first real research experience (I never even knew doing ... Research Opportunities. You think to yourself: okay, I want to do research ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

   CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) if you have the opportunity to do so. Meet you local MIT ... do students do outside of classes? Do they have time to relax? (they do ... do attend, please share your experiences in the comments below! And if

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it ... “You haven’t even started doing psets yet, just you wait.” and “Why are ... than that are the people who love what they do and, as a result, are

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... ’T KNOW. WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS? (Dora laughs) It’s just computer ... : Rate my day? Um, what do you mean? Me: Like on a scale of your choosing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  Do you know what “hosed” means? Urban Dictionary defines it as ... overtook me. I could not do math. I failed to comprehend chemistry. I wrote ... the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  with other prefrosh, as it seemed that they were all on board with doing ... was more of an indicator of the kinds of things you COULD do with ... fraternity life. I met people who liked the things I liked doing, so I felt at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  numbers in the superscript like they do in those fancy publications, but I can't seem to do that here. I had to settle for these floating stars ... next ones do, so read on my friends. Read on. **: True story. Pass

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  supervisors playing Solitaire at some point, and the work I was doing was ... , as I was doing with work coming from other offices. There was a point ... best bet, maybe I could do a bit better. I continued to work through the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013