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• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  take it at your pace. I'd ideally do yoga after my morning jog as a ... doing stuff in a group (with strangers who don’t know you’re a ticking ... joined a floor aerobics class that was super fun and intense. You could do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... .[annotation note="This is a joke. Please don't do this."]Drop all your classes ... money. This probably has something to do with how at MIT you don’t pay

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  , truthfully doing. Because I have come to a realization. We spend every single ... how a person is doing. “How are you” is asked quickly and instinctively ... failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  less than an hour, my bus leaves in less than an hour, I need to do ... do. But it's been two months without posting and I'm going hungry. I ... like what I am doing is "bloggable", I shall think back to my all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  want to do, so we commited to making something nice. We found a lumber ... wondering: what in the world are we doing? Finally, we mounted our ... . "This is insane. Why did we do this?" We bought an oil painting (on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  write about things you do at MIT. Admissions officers can write about ... reasonably free to write about things you do, think, and experience while you ... like to do, then head on over to Slideroom and fill out the blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  GPA, your SAT/ACT scores, etc.—you can’t do anything about those, so ... perfect applicant—you are not, and you do not need to be. Rather, essays can ... not only to take classes and do work there, but also to eat and sleep

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... idea what you are doing. Sure, the practical tips about being an adult, like how to do laundry, or how to not burn a pot of spaghetti are

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  brothers on how they're doing and what they're up to. That got me thinking ... me, the stories of what my fellow undergrads are doing around me are a ... Arman '17 and Rowzay '17. They're doing the 6.470/6.148 IAP Web

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It ... describe the specifics of what I do, but gives a general idea of why. It also ... learning everything that they do. By comparing the genomic sequences to the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually ... of research, the SENSEable City lab is doing really awesome things ... and report the locations of the signals. How often do entreprenurial

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  L. Rafael Reif, who always surprises students by doing quirky things ... yourself, donate $100 to the ALS Association, or do both, and then publish ... many as people and celebrities began doing the challenge while neglecting

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But ... puts their faith in you, they do so believing that there is potential in ... the most of your opportunity. So the next question is... how do you make

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  than what I had originally planned. That said, do go through your CPW ... B. '15 1. If you pay for food at any point, you're doing it wrong. 2 ... experiences! Elizabeth K. '14 Don’t stress over not being able to do everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here ... ago. It's awesome. Nevertheless, you do get a little bored living by ... .) Should I do it again? You decide! And if you have any cooking tips

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... simplest solution: write. Writing is fun. That’s why I do it so much

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  Afee). The job description was to do some penetration testing with some typical ... internship was to do quite a bit of work with Metasploit, a hacking framework ... put out by the powerful hackers who do this for a living. Script Kiddies

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  interests. While I do plan on going directly to medical school next year, I ... 'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  a handful of staff on hand to do the processing. Please do not call ... 're still missing. In the meantime, please do not resend multiple copies of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating ... 've achieved and what you'll do in the next few years, I'm awed.  Every day I can ... change that. We've got two weeks left before winter break.  Let's do this.

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012