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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the ... .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn ... WOW IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. I quickly texted the entire planet, went back to work, and continued to do an even worse job. It slowly sunk in: it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  refusal to learn how to do drawing on a computer."]Day 1: Web ... creative exercise (so don't make fun of the stupid science I'm doing here ... to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do ... Comm was a HUGE time sink, it was time I would rather have spent doing ... night 3-hour Wednesday meetings when all I wanted to do was to go to sleep

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  blogger alum Elizabeth C. '13. She created the web series Science Out Loud ... experiences as a Fellow. Like I said, doing ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS. Have I ... jackets over windows (lighting quick fixes) Taking pictures of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... people what they like to do for fun is a fantastic window into their world ... 's Hawaiian Rolls. I hope he's doing okay."]right or wrong answers

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... . We all love a rags-to-riches story, and so do all the writers who

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships at the [annotation note="like microsoft, apple, google"]big tech ... bet that you guys are doing this with the "Why do you want to apply to ... problems very quickly, and they usually involve recursive solutions, which I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  other about plans. What are you gonna do with all your free time? Do you know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... faculty lunches that the Office of the First Year was doing were canceled. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• 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 ... MIT’s (very cool) Media Lab. The line in the graph drops off quickly

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

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  minds. It is not a cheap, easy, or quick thing to do. It requires ... the fun way and most of your friends do it with you. —TK '23 walking ... in the end but it feels mostly awful while you do it (even though you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... cat, I ran quickly to the office and seconds later, was tearing off DHL ... that package? It was all I could do to balance my sanity between the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It ... MEng) Google - YouTube and TV ads projects Medical doctor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• 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

  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 / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I ... background science too quickly. Trying to please everyone here. (Here. In

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... "blizzard of 1978 boston." Also, Ohio. But I guess Google's search ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p ... people in my wing, like “What do you miss most from high school?” or “Draw ... ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do ... . Looking at my (eight different color-coded) Google Calendar(s), I notice now ... categorize. I thought it'd be cool to post them on a Google Map to visualize

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011