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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  night/weekend work is expected from October to April. In return, your job ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... extra screen space really helps when you're trying to make sense of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... a girl could ask for. for always knowing how to frame my shots and get ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  nights when I didn’t even want to think about walking across campus to get ... experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience ... went back to work. Half an hour later, I checked my Facebook and couldn

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , is like when you have 10 minutes before your parents come upstairs to check to see if you cleaned your room. MIT was repairing buildings ... ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s monday, i thought, and maybe i should try to get work done today. that day ... ignore it. you switch back to your editor, but your thoughts are elsewhere ... , to think that you have no ceiling in your power! yes, i am feeling it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... Afterward, I had 3 hours to clean my room, pack 2 weeks of clothes, and get

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy ... , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook, to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These ... or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get ... , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
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  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... an important thing. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get through ... right now. Sure, I tell myself that I’m going to get four years’ worth of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google ... , spread across the bed, and playing some Taylor Swift music, trying to get ... classes and labs and problem sets, getting to translate that to an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  1880s. WXGS welcomes you wholly as you are and encourages you to be your ... Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016