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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  what were you doing before you started Crash Course?  These two questions ... internet, but I’m not going to offer that as advice. If you weren’t doing what you’re doing today, what else would be doing? Before YouTube I was

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version ... goal.) Then I tried to flex my current score of 477,000.] What do you ... patterns that they do over and over and over again. It’s just that they get

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the ... Toolkit. To do anything with the state, I had to think about use ... familiar with Redux Toolkit, I can now think in the level of "do some action

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  separate drafts before I decided to make my roommates Fatima and Nora do the ... and do things like bring two tennis balls (which we named "Wilson ... quote dumbledore, ‘It does not do to dwell on your dreams and forget to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up ... each successive fail. I could do calculus; I could rattle on all day ... . But I was 17, and I was just quirky, and one day I’d Grow Up and do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  very quickly by bulldozing through everyone in your way. i do not ... ” suffer from a lot of hindsight bias so i will try to avoid doing so but ... and deer, but they do so almost entirely by running, and this is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  . This class is notoriously difficult and I'm pretty stressed about doing ... that it's ready for students when they do them on that Tuesday ... . Crosswords; I do the New York Times Daily Mini challenge every day when it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the ... more. If you’re planning to actually use any of these, definitely do your ... probable, and I’ll spell those out -- but if you do get murdered, don’t blame

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... end up telling someone, my friend had replied, "Who do you think you are? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  about what's going on Taiwanese TV shows than I do (jk, Matt =p). But ... that people are pretty smart there." 2:16 to 2:45: Host: "So what do geniuses look like? Do they not comb their hair or take baths?" Janet: "That

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  literature (though there are other great colleges that do, like Chicago and St ... students seem stressed because they genuinely want to work hard and do their ... MIT's culture: cooperative, collaborative, doing serious work... while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  letters and reje...not-acceptance letters, do you ever get people who come ... to major in and do research in bioengineering at MIT. Application ... be accepted." For many applicants (especially those doing IB or A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  that I started following the team as closely as I do today. It’s no ... . And I was able to do that through baseball. Because when I close my

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  to help our students communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this ... orientation if possible. If this sounds like something you might like to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , hitting the correct notes and words. The gap between doing it right and doing it honestly manifested in all the details I had no energy or skill ... beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  them, do not be alarmed! Treat them kindly, help them cross the street ... the fate of all of us. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  for us to be able to do anything in the fall semester. Unfortunately ... was here, it was time to do everyone’s favorite thing: more recruiting ... were doing. – Jebby"]because they were three people

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  also hard. It’s so much easier to try and do everything yourself, with no ... updates and discuss what you’ll do in the coming week. I’ve been fortunate ... do much more working together than working alone. You could say I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  stuff one-on-one like this when we can, but since we all do know each ... unless you’re all doing it to each other. To spend more time together! So ... organic impetus for you to assemble. How do you fix this? Group chat group

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this by hiring students who have ... . If this sounds like something you might like to do, then head over to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024