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• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  see, learn, do, taste. Essentially, it's sensory overload of the amazing ... or can you actually do it here at 18 years of age? I return to a personal anecdote. When I came to MIT, I wanted to do one thing, I wanted to

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  . (More about what I'm doing with Chemistry will come over the next few ... with undergrads and grad students doing research, and we even went on ... the table without ever being consciously aware of doing so. -There's a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  an EMT, even though doing any of those would also have been great. For the most part, I'm about to find out just what there is to do in this ... the start of spring term seems like the perfect time to do this. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  ’s all fine and good, Keri, but what does this have to do with anything at ... to be informed of this. You do, however, need to know about my ... fact that I’d waited in line for about an hour already (what, do these

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  . (I mean, I...) Phillippe wonders: When do freshman get to see the ... particularly good for freshmen because there's always someone doing a problem set ... 's doing with her life better than being hosted by a starry-eyed nervous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... least, but it just goes to show you how much there is to do during IAP. One thing I did do is fry forty-six meatballs this weekend for the Mafia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  . They had no idea what to do with all of this, and after hours of feeling ... . I came along and had nothing to do, so I tried to find a rule that ... gave me something else to do. Hours later, someone else found some more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  there to do something fun when I need a study break. As far as ... philosophy that you should always try something so you don't regret not doing ... while you slept or never have to do laundry?" Diana, Interesting puzzle

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to ... doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with ... lot more other stuff that I had to do this time. -6.004 (Computation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... do most of the sharing. (I don't know much about how it works after ... , you can do whatever you want. My roommate and I just painted the room

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  -free environment. Seriously, the only things I have to do are retrieving packages ... for three hours. While doing that, I got paid $27.75. Mitra can explain ... intention of joining them--make sure to do this as much as you can freshman

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  either doing FPOPS, or they're international students or athletes. Everyone ... "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate," which Sam has already alluded to ... experience than by doing something on that list?" It's not like I had anything

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask ... have? Do you have to do p-sets for Biology classes and if not, what is ... that he expected to be doing the same for us in a few years. Um, no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  ?” “Of course I do,” I’d shrug as I brought my phone closer and closer to ... all I know is that I want to do something great. I just have no clue how ... do is nod.  ii. the murdered dead of armies As the months pass, this

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... just one sentence, like I did just now, but I feel it still doesn’t do ... posed with the question of what I would do. One piece of media couldn

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  the most fulfilling things I do here at MIT and I really have loved ... advisor: How do I know what to take this year? For starters, CJ has an ... idea what you want to do at MIT and (2) is a manageable schedule with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  Andreyevna Krasilnikova. Where do you live now? Cambridge, MA, USA. What is ... ). I unquestioningly thought I could do anything I wanted to do—which to ... hardworking and if I decided to do something it got done. Things that would

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I ... discovered that I actually liked programming a lot and wanted to do more of it ... biochemistry class which had no relation to what I want to do in the future, took

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  honest, I didn’t quite know where to start. Do I talk about the Muslim Student Association? Do I talk about the prayer space that’s a short walk away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  , I do think there is a meaning of life. I wrote three years ago, back ... , "here's something I'm mad about and here's what I'm going to do," I'm always thinking, "and then what?" How do we get from a point where you do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024