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  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the ... Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I ... be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  faced a decision: should I head straight back to the dorm or should I do ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  hard classes, do well, and you'll be in good shape. Ooh, here's a gem ... liveblog (too much there to talk about, I couldn't do it justice in a setting ... Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  work. It's a long process, with breaks in between each step; I'll do ... digital art on my MIT-issued iPad, or doing a cryptic crossword with a ... a haze of pset after pset, lecture after lecture, and a midterm always

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  ’m right, too. So do some research. Think about the schools a little more and ... although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  safely do so. [annotation note="me? oh, I'm still w a i t i n g to launch ... waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  a Monster to do so, so my brain was skittery and wouldn’t fall asleep ... about as much work, but it would be harder to do in a culture where that ...   “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  India, figured out how to do a stopover on the way for a friend’s recital ... Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... find a job and figure out what they want to do in life. I also used the ... Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second semester doesn't start until February; instead, we use January to do ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  laughter. and finally, on what I do at work - I've been thinking a lot ... doing research despite having a total misunderstanding of what it involved ... . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  have, but have yet to experience doing a 37-page practice problem set of ... So Matt got a question a few days ago requesting that we write about ... 's start over. The other day this fabulous idea for a blog entry came from a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the only thing i can do right now. i'm getting enough sleep, but i don ... ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  during the race. The creativity of all the bikes had a lot to do with how ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now ... 't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... my experiences abroad a few years ago, i would hang out with college

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  . But every weekday comes with a giant to-do list, in my face and ... feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... . That name is Harvard. Harvard has another feature, known as a wide ... Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

      A fun problem, from my 10-year-old brother’s Russian math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  called, "Preparing for College: What's a Maker To Do?" Its on Sunday at 3 ... probably already know what Maker Faire is, but if you don't it's basically a ... 's an Arduino section, a 3D printer section, there will be robots walking

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012