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  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve, most of my First East floormates disappeared, their tiny suitcases rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims ... Anti-Asian sentiment in America is not new, but this last year has given ... subway or walking alone on the street. Seemingly every week, a video clip

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  paceline through town on the wheels of Zack U. and Ben W. (both Chemical ... on that: the wind proved to be more of an enemy than the gradient. Jen ... the silent smile of the Yeta at Ranchita Store kept us in good spirits

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of the verizon store, and i saw a farmer's market, and lots of tourists

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  As you've no doubt heard on email or from Ben's blog, we will, in ... .mit.edu on Saturday, March 18 at 12 noon, Eastern Standard Time. There's not ... password, because if you don't know it when you go to check on the 18th

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  me. The Leaves: One of the most memorable experiences about fall on ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to ... ways. I always find a sense of coziness whenever I'm enjoying something

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  event was put on by the Division of Student Life and was a welcoming of ... down and worked for a bit while enjoying the food. Good luck to Suzy on ... the creativity and ambitions of its students, faculty, and alumni. New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  test (and a good number of people can't!), you have to take a beginner ... into the apartment, and have all kinds of grownup things like furniture ... by Saturday night, but we really didn't clean out all of the boxes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  learning happens outside of classes is why overloading on classes isn ... evaluate theory, focusing on the causal effects of policy interventions on ... learned: In some ways, 14.03 was useful in some of the content that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  together in a way that makes me smile a lot on the inside and the outside ... possible kind of way) and awesome people. I can't imagine being here at MIT ... California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  catch up on months of missed Reddit, I turned it towards the long queue ... Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is ... actually a painting of Escher's that's on the door to the room in Zeta Psi

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  were so reminiscent of lab and design questions on my engineering PSETs ... -JLab-related.  In addition to being absurdly good at teaching, the people on the ... defined success based on whether I felt satisfied with my results instead of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... cake on fire" event. Apparently to set a cake on fire, you need a LOT of ... on fire in the oven), we just hoped that a single bottle of extract

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  of sororities on everything I'd seen and heard of those in other ... 'm of the opinion that the way to dispel stereotypes about MIT ... I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  think its a good way to start, but there's no substitute for just going ... inspired, I mean really inspired, I sit on my bed and close my eyes. I let my mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... were lots of dumb people getting in the way, so I didn't really get any ... if it comes from a box or consists only of taco meat and cheddar cheese

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  think of myself as a pretty good communicator. Imagine my surprise when ... visual ways to get across the energy and fun of doing science gave me yet a ... to think that a bit of her carries on between those covers. You

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  parents helped keep me on task while filling out applications, took care of ... to find some way, perhaps long in advance, of talking about ... a reflection on the worth of your child. Most often, rejections are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007