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The summer begins…
some pictures upon my return. Trains rock!
Doing anything fun this
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Blog / Athletics
Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship
, badminton, tae kwon do...). You can be an MIT student and do varsity athletics ... information sessions, people at MIT do much more than just sit in their rooms ... are active, doing things. -
Blog / Admissions
And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek
about this time for early action for things you might want to be doing ... (Educational Counselors, MIT alumni/ae who do the interviewing), we Waived your ... worries. N or [blank]: You did Not do an interview. Yes, you may have read -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is MIT a diverse community?
and empowers everyone to learn and do their best at MIT. -
FAQ / Life and culture
How did the blogs get started?
Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?
activities on our What to do in high school page. -
Blog / Challenges
short term / long term on growth and learning
write about it, what I'm doing and the conversations I've had, but ... so long I can't help but ask myself: Why do I still feel this way? I ... feel, what I can do to fix it, and how I'm going to go about this summer -
Blog / Admissions
Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report
have of students – and more important, by clarifying what we do not ... think they need to do to be strong applicants, and what they actually need to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that -
Blog / MIT Life
Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…
math class starts out with that is because often enough people _do ... it just yet. I mean, they do teach you what all that gibberish means before they ask you to do it. elaine said: i came across your blog while -
Blog / Admissions
March Questions Omnibus 2
listed, but I do remember Profs. John Fernandez and Steve Graves being ... anything we could do now that might influence the RSI decision?" bob, who is ... notifications will be sent." Well, I did say, "Because I do not work for the CEE -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square
lecture, and at some point thinking: "is this what mathematicians do all day?", which was a question quickly followed up by: "wait,,,, what do mathematicians actually... do?" And it's not like I haven't had this question -
Blog / How to Human
so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you
less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... upon your new favorite spot. Hold onto your 101 Things To Do Before ... think of something fun to do. I know people who've regretted losing theirs -
Blog / Academics & Research
laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1
note="please do not actually attempt at home"]Because you should ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last ... I spent most of September and October doing safety trainings and -
Blog / Admissions
Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again
awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I ... First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in ... -person interview would be difficult. Of course, I prefer doing in-person interviews -
Blog / Challenges
H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.
)...parts to the same problem - so in actuality you are doing like 20 smaller ... week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you -
Blog / Challenges
at least it’s not covid sick day
, mind you—and was left listless. what did people do when they were sick ... for… anything. without anything else to do, i tried to do what i always ... " but they do know the words for "dream", "future", or "devil", and maybe -
Blog / Challenges
Hold your breath my first CPW
, which we do in 6.UAT to learn about things like recovery. What do you do ... performs the fastest, but has the most work to do during recovery. The ... apprehensions about MIT? Why do you value so-and-so attribute over so-and-so other -
Blog / MIT Life
making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester
not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you chose to learn for the maker space. Just for reference, I was doing the -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much
Filipino Students Association to decide what we were going to do this spring ... first weekend in a while that I felt like I didn’t do anything. Friday ... ’m taking. And I think this is pretty clearly a sign that I’m doing a lot. I