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  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  exploring, it means you do not develop a professional expertise straight away ... to office hours regularly, and I was doing well with handling 5 courses ... of struggling that I do not feel comfortable talking about here…so now

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  pass, please consider just signing up for a swim class. Not only do you ... spent the first portions of classes doing a thing called mindful walks in ... . I had time that I could spend doing nothing but thinking.  This

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  that real adults do. And here I was doing it. Ethan spent the day ... somber, Kenneth mentioned to me that I seemed to be doing well. That I had ... complications and side things, Aiden was doing his own thing for a good chunk of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  on my part. I happened to pod with someone who knew how to do squats ... that I could do more pull-ups than before. What did that mean? I dunno ... listening to myself. One example is that I don’t always force myself to do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  want to do any research that involves interviewing people or observation ... tight timeframe doing this kind of work is probably not viable unless you ... be really interesting to do my paper on spectatorship and Twitch and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  projects, it's very often because it's a personal project, or I'm doing ... things I do. So when I do get criticism, it's painful. My longest post ... magically just got made without me doing it. I wished that I didn't have to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  Jerusalem, I rode a train across the country, I tried doing humanities research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... interview prep. All of this is silly. Do not be like me. I’m not saying you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September ... probably won't directly inform anything that I want to do in the future. Now ... to do with that department, but is instead housed through the MIT Quest

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  lectures were about” is very distinct from “what do I feel like I got out of ... read economics papers. While I never learned how to do it directly as a ... week or two). Now, there are ways to do this well — for example, on your

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  openers from other people until we realized that we actually do own one ... breaking a few weeks after that--it started doing the thing where you have to ... 't do that. Because otherwise you might end up setting off a pressure

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  that I just really enjoy learning physics, doing problems, etc. Physics ... sort of thing you could do anything with, and seeing as I don’t know what I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... bad history of actually listening to its students. I do recall filling ... stuff on my to-do list. We move in this weekend, and the first thing we

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task ... going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to ... your computer do it for you. Starting from the app I picked up right

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  you do what you always do when you’re bored: You dick around with your ... ’re doing, but you never really do. But then you play a little something that ... piece of a melody you really like. And you do! It’s “When did you get a

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  class before—the homework for each class is to do readings ... work than it is since there’s homework every day, but I like how doing it ... 't gotten a chance to do that in a class here yet.   It’s also a Sloan

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  and unwavering. You can do anything. Now, to extrapolate to [annotation ... moment, you somehow feel really on top of everything. You’re doing as well ... you have to do is reach the end and rest your legs for a while. For an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  a pre-lifting state. But, I’m doing it. Again. My first day back, in ... that hurt my whole body. I had broken so much of sweat doing it that my ... all too familiar. Standing there, too afraid to grab the bar and just do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  else to do. I felt so desperate to get the words out, yet so gut ... anywhere. When I finally did it, do you know what the words that came out ... home, sexual orientation labels do not exist. It wouldn’t even make sense

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... several ways: Do you care that my family was affected my gang and gun ... then had it disbanded because of problematic school administrators? Do

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  resources to do so and still remain a productive member of a company ... reflected accordingly. After I took the time to just do some basic research ... and otherwise) workplace, it seems bizarrely simple. Of course women do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017