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  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch ... somewhere were wrong? Do I need to print out that page, sign it, and mail it ... . ------------------------------------- Anonymous wrote, "hey, do you recommend any programs seniors could do in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... . You might be able to find a community that enjoys doing [insert hobby ... .” There was always something I could be doing, perhaps even something I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  share of making sure the people around me were doing okay. I felt like ... to anyone around me. I still do my best to check-in with my friends; still do my best to read people’s body posture and facial expression and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  intention of doing it...except if I got accepted to PlayStation. Things have a ... I intend to do GTL somewhere in Europe next IAP. Sidequest 7: Beat ... of given up on this, because like the New Englander I am, I do have a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  tried to do some machine learning on it and it took soooooo loooooong to ... to do...or the time I told someone I was an MIT Computer Science ... where the TA was doing an introduction for how to code in C++, and he

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  do some simple integral problems on the board a couple times, and one ... professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... gets you excited. Until you have to do homework. 2. Go over one example

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  huge difference for me and my family. Please do note that I'm aware of ... blogger). How's it being a vegetarian at MIT. Do you know any vegans/do you ... admit are able to do the work. Stats don't get you acceptance into MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  this manner - genuine being the key word. If you do, it'll hopefully show ... diversifying yourself, though, just because "everybody's doing it" - the ... wanting to got to MIT since I was little, do you have any advice or tips to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  would cook, and I would do the dishes. (Note: If somebody who is an ... Neurogenetics, was mostly doing population studies of genetic variation, looking ... doing it, and I'm glad. It would have been nice to have another HASS

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  physicists' own thought experiments. Anyway, all that being said, I do think ... attention to your applications as any other. tami wrote, "May I know what do ... above 600 hurtful? Or do you prefer >700? How to distinguish between good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  algorithm, which is a cool way of doing parameter estimation for complicated ... at pika and do more work on my pset. 12:42 a.m. My brain is not really ... wonderful time doing the assignment! 12:20 p.m. I wander downstairs where

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math began to nudge me more often. I wondered if I was doing it purely out of ego and stubbornness and not because I actually wanted to. I didn't do a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the ... on the ground, and stare at the wall. I'm pretty sure I had to do that move, but I am also sure if I do it I will slip or fall onto the ground

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  hoop or do anything else to stop the shocks, presumably because they ... doing so become powerless) and career decisions (we often assume we can ... doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  excellent time doing the things we can never find time to do during the ... ! I also got started [annotation note="We're allowed to do this in EC ... , and I'm definitely gonna do a whole post about it later. [carousel image

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  adapted since then, I was able to do them! I'll be including the 2020 ... year. Do a handstand - Incomplete. I didn't focus that much on core ... - Accomplished. I checked my max in late November and I was able to do one rep of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  activities, trying to figure out what I want to do with my life, applying to ... ’ve been doing a lot of growing at MIT. I’m changing, learning more about ... ’ve accumulated since my last trip back. Still, it’s weird to have to do that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  then I got busy, as people do, and my carpal tunnel got worse, and ... foam was all in disarray. If I were doing cool hard stuff, the way it ... twisted, my feet couldn't touch my head backward. I would do pushups, but I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... history. I don't know, and that bothers me. But what I do know is that I ... life, if I wanted. I could have a stable 9-5, and do whatever I desire

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  a conversation. So, the floor is yours. What do you want to talk about? Ameer: Honestly, I've been doing like a TON of thinking about like how I ... sight either Even my cat looking at me like "yo what are you still DOING

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020