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  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  , but students do not have assigned seats and are encouraged to move ... amounts of information and, by doing so, acquire critical thinking skills ... like Uber and Amazon, as well as creation of their own start-ups. They do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for ... I do in this area for a summer job?” Experimenting in College Stuff I ... . Conclusion: college has been fun, but I still have no idea what I will do in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... COOL BUT THEY ARE ALSO REALLY HARD TO MAKE BUT I ACTUALLY WAS DOING WELL ... minutes to do something that took me like 20…) made another great creation

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  I cared more than I do today. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad ... talk with are reconciling their freshman dreams of doing important and ... to procrastinate psetting, and doing routine things that aren’t fun

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... , Martin Trust Center, MIT $100K, Startlabs, Sloan, do.it@MIT, E-Club, Sloan ... they're doing.   At the Martin Trust Center, entrepreneur

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  no good photos of that night, I do remember having a good time dancing ... 't catch the aurora on our trip, and this was our final opportunity to do so ... and I'll see what I can do! I unfortunately won't be at many scheduled

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  any work, but then life happened and school exploded and my to-do list ... with investors, executives, and doing other mysterious professional CEO ... a class I’d started remotely - the one I wanted to do instead of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career ... , like: What are the existing forms of CBL? How do CBL institutions define ... 'm working currently on reducing that number. Tell Us about Something You Do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  out, doing the exact opposite of concentrating. When everyone’s on different working schedules and all you can do is long to be not working, it ... along too much to figure out how to do calculus, which is a real problem

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  surprise letters to each other (you still do). You escaped school (legally ... . Do not apply to MIT because your life goal is to go to MIT. Apply ... application. Ask yourself, why do you want to apply? Are you ready for either

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  years doing research in the Saeij lab on parasites and the Gilbert lab on ... something I can do when I go into the lab and run an experiment. Science and ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  . Solving racism has less to do with politics and more to do with--look around ... 't look like you, you are not doing enough. If we're willing to broaden our

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  anyone had actually trained owls to do this yet (no), and whether carrier pigeons could do the same (also no, they're actually super lame and hardly ...  Elizabeth Choe and current sophomore Loren Sherman to figure out how to do it. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  that this is not a feel-good post. i do have many strong opinions on the ... fairly say that i knew Matthew; but i do feel as if i know myself (a bit ... things i’ve told you, we could probably be considered friends. so do me a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  activities all pushed into my day, while all I wanted to do was sleep, eat ... crossed the bridge, MIT campus, East Campus courtyard. All I had to do was ... MIT always, but I do now. No place is an ideal match, but I guess I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it ... do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  . I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to ... 's considering doing a UROP in Brain and Cognitive Sciences as an EECS major. But ... companies do, and then for the rest of the time, you play board games, eat

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  my UROP? I do that anyway." Another emailed back and said she hadn't even known it was possible to do Serious Academic Research about social ... $500,000 and a ton of faculty sponsors to actually do it) There's been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  doing better at my job or for learning new things. As a college student I ... INSANITY program from start to finish. I'd be able to do it easily in my dorm ... problem with this last semester. I stayed up so late so many nights doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  guess is pretty hard to do if you don’t have any actual leaves. Even the ... family and my home, because I do. But after only two months here, I ... didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013