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  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  something. (definition from How To Get Around MIT)   Which brings us to ... a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to ... you’re here to do: go to class, slog through p-sets, write essays, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... to get me -- I’d finally found my fellow lizard people! Socializing on ... attempt at pretending to be smart. Getting on campus didn’t fix my tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  meaning to get to, and found out that Ben had just answered her question ... Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday ... holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  enough to get multiple roles, from different companies. unfortunately, i ... with a bunch of other new actors. i got to meet a few people. i was ... mixed together, regardless of experience. i got to work with new actors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure ... initiative, it's your resilience, it's your ability to take feedback, it's your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  To manufacture the silicon chips that run your computer, silicon ... to mathematical approximations -- which were developed by applying ... engineering and is the associate director of the LMP. To analyze these systems

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  grades drop. Not choose another college to attend by May 1. What should I ... aid? You're not required to enroll. We'll give you a financial aid package and you'll have time to consider your decision before letting us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main ... dancing to kids' tunes. I like to come for the crafts and get stuck at a ... supporting a local business by going to see a movie and stopping by the museum

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  my friends have gone back to school because I have to wait to get the ... horror....) Well, that's all from me. Back to your regularly scheduled ... CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  (in which I get to play with the internet!), that zealous nature started ... somehow started to come easily. I feel invigorated by the work I do and what I'm learning, by my friends, and by all the sleep I'm getting :) I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  gets updated from its old value to the value on the right of the arrow, i ... prospectives on here might be curious to see what problems on problem sets are ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  know what it's going to be about. Meanwhile, since I'm being hosed by my ... the eye, signal detection theory, and more, and we get to look at lots of cool optical illusions. I get to remember how to do convolutions, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  want to get things done. i have projects i'm, in theory, excited about ... get taken. the third row goes from just me, to another person near the ... to think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you’re in your room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the ... ’ve often found it difficult to get through historical books—admittedly, old ... with most other cryptography, no idea if I’ll ever get to apply it in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  you need to carry cake to work on your bike, then you sort of wish for a ... underwear and then shivering in the sun trying to dry off, surrounded by my ... some notes for a poem I’m planning to write when I get back, just in time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  means we get to consider changes and additions to questions we include on ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... mostly it’s about diversity. (And as soon as he gets it back online again

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011