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• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself ... , and of all the things they could do as a friend to make me feel better

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  ). Sometimes people ask me why I'm doing this to myself, but I just tell them ... . I'm sitting in classes, taking notes, doing homework. This is most of what I do these days. I'm putting my nose to the grindstone, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the ... many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have ... safety net. the good I'm trying to navigate things on my own, like how do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  with: Do you mostly listen to the same artists over and over (and over ... : Familiarity (F) vs. Exploration (E) — do you listen to your favorite artists on repeat, or sample a lot of new ones? Loyalty (L) vs. Variety (V) — do you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  . you tell them about how, last spring, you banned yourself from doing ... , and a few months into your role you still don’t think you are doing a ... doing with your life - why are you spending so much time reading about ai

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  understand that they don’t actually have to do anything just because I told them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then will only do the bare minimum that could be considered “sitting

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  the feeling of constant creation, of always writing or coding or doing ... about doing next, because there's always something to do next. here's two ... learn this internship? and my manager asks me things like, what do you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... fully aware of the nature of the world can do that. but once you realize ... first i said i wanted a system to decide when to do things for myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do, but they didn’t really know what I should do either, because they knew ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... myself actual food." I'd say that during the semesters, I do an okay job

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  class, but I do build things on my own time! Currently, I'm trying to make ... estimate of RPM by getting the pitch of the sound being produced! I'm doing ... how likely I am to Do A Thing today, we can ~extrapolate~. To figure out

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... on what applicants could do to help themselves with the application ... do with email:  To the extent you can, you should try to use one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  and think about what I want to do with my life. So this summer, working ... this past year. And wow, have I grown. What have I been doing? So many ... that prevented me from doing this during the semester, admittedly; it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me. So many readings, labs, code reviews, java tutor exercises to do, such little time to do it all. 6.036- who knew ML was all math? I dropped 6

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  come next. So, I've just been... doing what I can. Getting through each ... wanted to know was, how does it make me feel? I think I'll have to do ... version is that I'm still going strong. My sourdough starter is doing very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  were busier than usual, but I didn't notice since I was doing, uh, the same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... Saturday, which is usually the day I dedicate to doing pretty much 0 work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you ... hidden gems around here. I won't spoil anything, but I do recommend

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT ... deadline, so we knew we wanted to do it in our senior year IAPs, and we did ... got to do some fun things throughout the month! The first weekend, I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  to it, although the learning curve was pretty steep and i had to do two ... i do say so myself[/caption] here's an animated version of it because ... love to do a thesis on final fantasy 7 (somehow). reading cracking the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  . However, my first real research experience (I never even knew doing ... Research Opportunities. You think to yourself: okay, I want to do research ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017