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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... 't matter as much as what you do with the opportunities you're given there

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider, for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you ... "]UROP?[/annotation] B: Because I need a job. A: Why do you need a job? B: Because I need

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... done. I try to work, I really do. I spend time sitting in front of ... do it if I tried, but I’m just not trying hard enough. When I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... you *can* do it. When the application came out, I was in the middle of ... I said I'd do in a zombie apocalypse, and don't remember how I said I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... . We do our weekly meeting on Tuesdays (called Cruesdays) in the student

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  ’t work, or is inefficient. Maybe you spend a lot of time doing problems you know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do ... key while doing practice tests. Yes, a poor performance can sometimes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... . We chose this major by thinking endlessly about what we want to do with ... stick with 21E (doing both course 6 and CMS stuff) or just drop the course

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  , statistically, people do with YouTube videos) I won't blame you. Self ... what I've been doing this semester, good lighting/focusing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... why you want to Do The Thing MIT did not convince me to Do The Thing—here are the things that did Do research and/or work to discover why you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  get into MIT, but I do believe you're all guaranteed for success just ... soon, my question "what encouraging words do you have for applicants ... , dear applicants: not only do you have my full support but you cleary have

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  really evaluate what I like about my major and what I want to do. Before I ... , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or ... do technical interview prep. 74% of my program's interns from last

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors ... my mind lately. (And by subject I mean aw-maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually ... I’ve also been doing a lot of concertgoing (relevant zine lol ... do useful things. 2. It is sometimes okay and necessary to run away

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017