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  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

   CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) if you have the opportunity to do so. Meet you local MIT ... do students do outside of classes? Do they have time to relax? (they do ... do attend, please share your experiences in the comments below! And if

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it ... “You haven’t even started doing psets yet, just you wait.” and “Why are ... than that are the people who love what they do and, as a result, are

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... ’T KNOW. WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS? (Dora laughs) It’s just computer ... : Rate my day? Um, what do you mean? Me: Like on a scale of your choosing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  Do you know what “hosed” means? Urban Dictionary defines it as ... overtook me. I could not do math. I failed to comprehend chemistry. I wrote ... the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  with other prefrosh, as it seemed that they were all on board with doing ... was more of an indicator of the kinds of things you COULD do with ... fraternity life. I met people who liked the things I liked doing, so I felt at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  numbers in the superscript like they do in those fancy publications, but I can't seem to do that here. I had to settle for these floating stars ... next ones do, so read on my friends. Read on. **: True story. Pass

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  supervisors playing Solitaire at some point, and the work I was doing was ... , as I was doing with work coming from other offices. There was a point ... best bet, maybe I could do a bit better. I continued to work through the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  're stale and irrelevant. Don't DO that! Whoever you are, reading this, don't do that. It's like planning to bake a crisp and hoarding fruit months in advance. Don't do that. Your crisp will be less than delicious. More

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... was it really was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life? ...Then ... wanted to do was to take 5 classes and my 10 hour/week UROP second semester

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete the Midyear Report, which will be

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  I did eventually find my way out of the tunnels. I'm doing fine. I'm doing great. I got ten hours of sleep last night, made oatmeal for ... of my strong points. I came to MIT because I wanted to do something

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  so much time to study I faced doing an entire 18.06 (Linear Algebra ... an astronomy outreach program I want to do, when I noticed that it ... you will share your activities with me, I myself love to do astronomy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 Things to Do Before I Graduate finish the requirements for my two majors ... graduate students (the grad students have to do more pset problems than the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  highways, rolling through well-to-do neighborhoods, tunnels coated in bold ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time ... you do what you want (or have) to do. It's the sort of thing where you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... worthwhile activities a student might do. While many MIT students have ... doing)? And so the winning teams are not necessarily the ones that have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  doing a couple of anxious dances and taking a few deep breaths before I ... ’ve got a bajillion things to do. And today, I will not finish all of them ... think of the one thing I do know. Good old freshman me. I know who I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  't epitomize skillz, I do not know what does. We also learn about biological ... sometimes in life, we have to do things that we may not want to do, but they ... : Documenting Science Through New Media I'm learning how to do legitimate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  . And I do mean very warm. My bike has been sitting out with one handlebar ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... more easily than do those for whom the experience is entirely foreign. If

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  thousands of others do it as well, I believe these two bits of advice will do ... , which requires you to know who you are. What do you share? What's most important about the things you do? Which activities mean the most to you? What

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  aren't nearly hot enough." "I agree. What do you say to refining the ... , let's do it!"), and a lot of creativity from people who enjoy doing very ... helpful song about what to do when the zombie apocalypse comes) by Songs to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009