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• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  to their needs, and we will continue to do so. I say to you what we ... students will not change. We will do everything we can that is legally ... the work we do in admissions, states that our mission is to "advance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... complain about not having opportunities or resources to do whatever it is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  MIT milestones often have something to do with 3.14159... 7 years ago ... feeling like it's an okay the best way to do life Chatting up classmates ... jampacked Macklemore spring concert Thinking I'm going to do pretty well in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  apart as we witness this and do nothing, change nothing, deny, grow ... straws, trying to understand, trying to find what to do, I am with you ... of Color After Psychological Trauma (and Other References) What to Do

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and ... lie within water and sanitation. He was hooked and he wanted to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  here are a few interesting items I'd forgotten about: "By the way, do ... too much of his talk but I think it had to do with behavioral economics ... ). Anyway, I think this quote refers to the idea that we do not exercise as

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  do this. Two important factors he stressed when evaluating a field are ... Startups survive on momentum.  How do you maintain momentum when you ... smaller wins - developing reusable rockets, for example. Why do this at all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... . Soon, people from throughout the Simmons community were doing whatever ... Simmons can do that well of a job of bringing people together. So thank you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  , do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their ... read essays titled things like "Do Machines Make History?" and "The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  people can’t do integrals. At this point, I ask myself a very fundamental ... five. We had to do integrals, with a time limit. If you got one wrong ... or very excited about integrals to fit in, do well, or have fun at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  -handed people have an advantage in combat. Why do we care about music? Why, in ... paints. Do we have an innate template for culture, from language to ... . Religion suggests oneness of the universe. Why not do away with the word

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  whole point of going here.  There are 22+ majors, and if you do a quick ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of ... starts with doing excellent work, but it extends beyond that. It requires

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  ISOs, and you want to do smart nerdy things with smart nerdy people, you ... hospitality I was shown. I don't know where I will go next. All I can do - all anyone can do - is try to put themselves in new, occasionally uncomfortable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do ... of where you come from." I'm still doing that a little bit. I still ... I'm going to try. *I actually took notes everywhere. I do that in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... tolerance for discomfort. It sucks in the moment, but lets you do cool things

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  they) taught me to see it. When I do the best I can, reading applications ... thing to do is, however naive and unreachable that hope might be, it's in ... whatever you do next.   The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  campus, since that's one of the hardest things to do when the semester is ... time at MIT when I'm doing things completely unrelated to classes. I ... doing that.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  handles them: "Doing something—bouncing something off the wall? You don’t do that, it’s a memorial. Writing something on the wall? You don’t do that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  doing homework with them and talking until too late. It’s about the way ... want to tell so much, but where do I even start? Perhaps with the first ... waffles and socialization. Then I will do math. And I will be very very

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  can do any of that, I need to learn some German. Fulbright agrees, so ... cochlear implants, a biochemist is doing research on multiple sclerosis, a ... class, he wasn’t my advisor, I wasn’t doing research with him. But we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014