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• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  to tell their true stories, and, by doing so, to give prospective ... out. Not with their laptops in front of them, not doing a little work in ... ’t realize what people are doing in your life, what roles they’re playing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  ”--because they never tell you how to do any of that, and though the sentiments ... studying, I work best when I do not listen to music. The best sound ... libraries and cafes are good environments. I do not work well in my own room

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  rooms; walls do. The room contains equipment to treat the most severe life ... , “Do you want to see this?” “Yes, I do.” During the fall of my senior ... was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think ... , do you think you will be able to complete the core sequence of 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  cooler you could be doing with your time that will do far more to help your ... , the differences really don’t matter too much. Do you really think that ... do simply for the pleasure of it,” I’m going to be a little worried

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... no idea what I'm going to do, but medicine is definitely a possibility ... twenty some years since my dad has been in med school... Do you know any

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in ... still be happy and successful and go on to do great things. Hey, I failed ... ) Do you have any secrets dealing with the black rings or/and wrinkles

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  take outside the General Institute Requirements. (If you're only doing ... programs and a blank Excel spreadsheet, but I don't know if it will do you ... international orientation will go from August 21 to August 23. Students doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs ... postdoc with whom I work directly, Albert. I was still learning how to do all the different lab protocols, and since I didn't know how to do most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  . I didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. There were a couple of concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... 'm not really sure why I do these things; I suppose its just one of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  description, nor is it in Matt's. It's something we do in our spare time because ... school who was killed. You couldn't have said it better - people do need to ... . Thanks for doing your part to keep these threads on the right path. As you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I’m not doing enough. i hate the thought that if i tell them i have this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch ... somewhere were wrong? Do I need to print out that page, sign it, and mail it ... . ------------------------------------- Anonymous wrote, "hey, do you recommend any programs seniors could do in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo ... . You might be able to find a community that enjoys doing [insert hobby ... .” There was always something I could be doing, perhaps even something I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  share of making sure the people around me were doing okay. I felt like ... to anyone around me. I still do my best to check-in with my friends; still do my best to read people’s body posture and facial expression and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  , some have less, but you do kinda have to map out a courseroad if you ... ?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of what you want, with fewer requirements. “Oh, I know a guy doing that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  intention of doing it...except if I got accepted to PlayStation. Things have a ... I intend to do GTL somewhere in Europe next IAP. Sidequest 7: Beat ... of given up on this, because like the New Englander I am, I do have a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  tried to do some machine learning on it and it took soooooo loooooong to ... to do...or the time I told someone I was an MIT Computer Science ... where the TA was doing an introduction for how to code in C++, and he

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  do some simple integral problems on the board a couple times, and one ... professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... gets you excited. Until you have to do homework. 2. Go over one example

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  ’s lots of space and not entirely sure what to do with it (except sit there ... offices across from mine do and that is a lot like having a window myself ... work. I’m hoping to be able to do my on-campus TA work and email checking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015