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  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  from an airplane descending in free-fall, go connect with new friends. Do ... when you do, either! Enforce a separation of work and play, and know whom ... easier to simply channel yourself through what you do. It's a guiding

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... guys you jam with when you don’t feel like doing work, and you ... much work either of you have to do – you always talk to about your day at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... do both AND watch an episode of “Glee” just blows my mind. Did I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  -next-to-what-you-plan-to-do-with-your-life” forms, I went to her office ... pen and doing my problem sets on blank paper from MIT's computer labs ... . 4.pika happened (lowercase intentional). By which I do not mean this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  . In fact, if you don't do any Rush as a freshman then YOU'RE DOING IT ... fraternities...how many boys choose not to join one and what do they miss out on ... getting a bid. That's right, I spent 2 weeks with this fraternity, doing

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  course 9? Do you like the number 9? In reverse order: I like the number 9 ... ). Carmen queries: emt sounds so exciting, but do you ever really get all the ... run pretty much the same as they do. (My last post about MIT-EMS was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  Red Line), which would raise the question of what they were doing there ... their dorm phones, even though we do have one for each room (or you should ... , are doing, actually). Ben says he got an A in the course. If Paul does

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  , but the professor seems to know what he's doing and the material so far ... quite enjoyable. Again, it was all about vectors, and I can do those. Our ... enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  myself (no, it doesn't have to do with the band - though I did start listening to them after people commented on my username!). However, I do have ... year in football, but feel free to ask me questions. I'll do my best to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  swearing that you'll do better next time (unfortunately, the illness becomes ... I'll do my best. Just off the top of my head: Grocery stores: Star ... to do so with on papyrus with a sharpened reed, that's up to you, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  't do it alone. Everybody comes in freshman year thinking "I am the ... everybody else around them. And so that's what they do. We respect brilliance, hard work, clever solutions, and technical prowess. We do not respect

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  what were you doing before you started Crash Course?  These two questions ... internet, but I’m not going to offer that as advice. If you weren’t doing what you’re doing today, what else would be doing? Before YouTube I was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version ... goal.) Then I tried to flex my current score of 477,000.] What do you ... patterns that they do over and over and over again. It’s just that they get

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  separate drafts before I decided to make my roommates Fatima and Nora do the ... and do things like bring two tennis balls (which we named "Wilson ... quote dumbledore, ‘It does not do to dwell on your dreams and forget to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up ... each successive fail. I could do calculus; I could rattle on all day ... . But I was 17, and I was just quirky, and one day I’d Grow Up and do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  very quickly by bulldozing through everyone in your way. i do not ... ” suffer from a lot of hindsight bias so i will try to avoid doing so but ... and deer, but they do so almost entirely by running, and this is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  . This class is notoriously difficult and I'm pretty stressed about doing ... that it's ready for students when they do them on that Tuesday ... . Crosswords; I do the New York Times Daily Mini challenge every day when it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the ... more. If you’re planning to actually use any of these, definitely do your ... probable, and I’ll spell those out -- but if you do get murdered, don’t blame

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  principal's office. "I hear you're threatening to commit suicide. Camille, do ... end up telling someone, my friend had replied, "Who do you think you are? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  about what's going on Taiwanese TV shows than I do (jk, Matt =p). But ... that people are pretty smart there." 2:16 to 2:45: Host: "So what do geniuses look like? Do they not comb their hair or take baths?" Janet: "That

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008