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• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’t all bad, I suppose) today I could actually tell you what I’m doing this ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list happened :) Some commentary - THINGS I DID DO (yellow) 1. Pull an all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of stuff your brain *thinks* you can do. When you cram those years with stuff ... pains you've ached. The hard things you can do that you didn't even know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  meeting ended something like this: Me: Do you have any suggestions for things I could do to find out what it's like to be an astronomer ... Dumbledore. WHAT?! I was stunned. What. A. Ridiculously. Nice. Thing. To. Do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  college, I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation, but I wasn ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... research sooner? Why do I love research so much, enough that I want to do it

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry on how I got here is the most popular thing I’ve ever written. Therefore, even though…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... school. Just tell me what I need to do, their eyes implore, and I will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  helping him. His dad says: Watch what the people do. Watch how they get on ... flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these ... not, you can observe and extrapolate. Watch what people do, and take

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... ME: no it's fred FROSH: but ME: fred * * * FROSH: so where do you ... right?? FROSH: what hall do you live on? ME: 5th west FROSH: oh i don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things ... would suggest: Learn to prioritize and balance. YOU CAN NOT DO ... should do… Pursue areas of genuine interest (or dare I say, passion). If

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... activities you choose to do, the major you choose to pursue, the classes you ... the first place."]in your hands.[/annotation] You should do your best to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  straight up told me that I was going to do it. I practiced hard at home and ... knew that if I thought too hard about it, I wouldn't do it - so I put ... . L, put my trumpet to my mouth, do my thing until the rest of the band

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  . Forgot what I was doing for this code assignment and totally lost? STUPID ... say I can’t go to this event I had said I was going to, I do it, because ... ;   And I know, that I wanted to be faster, smarter, to do all the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018