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• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  though, nearly incomprehensible to the vast majority. I do explain that I ... transformative experiences in situations like these, and even do a great deal of ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine ... -building headaches like a drive failure, there was little time to do anything beyond ... Veys were super happy, and quickly found other techie tasks for me to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  'd do a weeks worth of BC calc homework less than an hour before turning ... the things I can do as a result. It may be a work in progress, but my ... to make huge and sweeping changes to try and find better ways to do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  ’t mind doing that for you, it’s not a really exciting question. If you ask ... times we don’t know what to write, and even when we do, we don’t know if ... 're just going to say we don't know anyway. 6. Do not insult my SAT score. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  do, but couldn't build anything if their life depended on it. They don ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in ... 's forge to make knife and sword blades, and do metalworking in general. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , we begin with one of the most important questions in sailing: how do ... , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... , cj and claire, the main thing you'll do is tacking. i'll handle the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra about doing it? And so, we have not one, but two completely separate sets ... , could well be applied to life in general): Do it your way, not anyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  funds do? To amuse myself, I briefly pictured manicured shrubs made from ... . I didn’t know what to do, so I chose to do nothing: stumbled into a ... curiosities and dreams, but I don’t know what to do with that. I want to learn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the ... otherwise would have no power to do. That’s what engineers do, right? They fix

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... greater, just as you do. Which brings me back to my own life. I have ... bathroom keep asking me what I am going to do with my life, and I just don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  's wrong with OAuth? I don't remember what their answers were, but I do ... anything from doing weekly setup and teardown, to helping organize one ... , not everyone who joins a Guild game or comes to Squares will do one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she ... taking an Uber to the airport when the driver asked what I do.  Me: “I use

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such ... beliefs about what you will do with your life. It is also okay to not know ... probably don't know! 4. How do some people manage to take 6 classes at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care ... let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... 't seem as terrible anymore. When I told my mom that we planned on doing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  't even have my license yet. But none of this has to do with my intelligence ... to do with my intelligence; I'm just rambling. You got A's because you ... really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... junior year and three more tales of junior year. I plan to do more sketch ... sorting, editing, and selecting photos. Final takeaway: do not work on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  frustrating if you want to go do, but it’s a nice excuse to just be. Ben ... want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely ... injuries from heart attack, strokes, and liver damage. TL;DR: I am doing a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... totally awesome via People Sleeping In Libraries ...figure out what to do ... great/hellish time anyways. ...figure out what to do with my life? Okay

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... same diff it doesn't change what you would actually do per project ... decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025