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• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library hacking away at a problem set or studying, there exists an equal and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  , at least for now, but I think some context would be important. Growing ... reread it and felt bouts of cringe, but it’s fine. They say cringing at ... whereas the second half would be more for having fun. small personal blogs

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  've been blocked on finishing some post ideas for several weeks now. So ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... inadequate for my needs. And also when its spacebar and Enter key broke, so it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... my waking up at 2 P.M.) As I order pizza from Domino’s for lunch, I ... , 2017 I’m writing a short story for my final writing class at MIT, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for at least a month: get a job. Eww, jobs. Anyway, being extremely lazy ... summer” post. I’m working at Microsoft! Ok, post over, back to work

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  semester, I set up an appointment at the GECD office for a résumé critique ... an advertisement for Fall Career Fair on the back page. That means an ... post!). But as always, everything at MIT seems to runs on its own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  our standards are so low at this point for what constitutes ... , at 1.12 words per turn to my 1.10. Comparing points earned for single ... of Absence for Academic Year 2020-2021, and afterwards it's unlikely I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before ... parents at least twice a week and take my garbage out when it got full. Ha. Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's molecules. If this makes sense, then you're ready for... Why the angle at ... 's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end. Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  : the google sticker with the lanterns: I got this from my mentor at Google when I interned there for a second summer. I liked how it didn ... the worst of TFP, and advocate for better services at MIT Medical. 2020

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... to finish it. two years later, jessica and i are neighbors at next ... 6.033 design project preliminary report so nisha doesn't yell at me, i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  task at hand. Wednesdays were a lot more hands-off for me, where the ... breakthrough. For reasons I've already stated before, Emily was so, so good at ... This semester, I joined CodeIt, a student-run organization at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  . At least not at first. Instead, what's there is this:   So ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... , including Wikipedia, reddit, Reports Without Borders, Google, Mozilla, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  at his office, and we talked for half an hour about my interests, about ... deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  whether to stay at MIT for a PhD, how to convince other people to take me ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of BS. I still feel like I never have enough time for all the things I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  from dining for at least the next two months. there was this book giveaway that the undergrad association did, where we wrote a blurb for one ... requested for financial assistance. both were approved. it was a relief to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... many true obligations and Places You Need To Be At. Even when I was ... Ramen in Harvard Square? Sure! Lying in the grass on Killian Court for an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  later (on a timer still for the sake of the game :P), but at this point we ... creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... 200+ clubs that exist at mit need to have people running them or

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Google Translate and StackOverflow. On my first day at office, my team ... I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it ... ’t want to throw out. I consider it a sort of graveyard for my thoughts this

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  . at the end of high school — and honestly, for the majority of my life ... pay more attention now, to the people who have made a home for me at ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020