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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... your enjoyment, a video of me playing the clarinet solo from Muse's new ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play ... things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day ... subsided, " I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a ... 've been influenced by this view. As much as I wanted to pretend that I didn ... by the people I talked to growing up. Stories of "the freshman twenty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  sender's underwear color. It has become a tradition. By signing with your ... sexual deviants hitting on you. This is just because we want to know your ... was an MIT student who didn't have quite enough credits to graduate

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

   (or, getting addicted to success) Soon you're not so special, and that's fine ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your ... special, so who are you? You're a person who clings to it. You try even

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... opportunity to get to know fellow GEL students as well! GEL Year Two ... ! After getting to know our mentors the day before, the GEL students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  , I am your advisor, and I want to make it clear that I strongly advise ... it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  to hyper-fixate on! thanks for keeping us entertained with random new ... celebrates. In your personalized Wrapped experience, you may have noticed a new ... : Familiarity (F) vs. Exploration (E) — do you listen to your favorite artists on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... to think that i’ve been strengthened by these things nonetheless. that ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  an online drop request to your advisor, your advisor approves it on ... Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... that I'd try to narrate her story by myself, but I soon realized that ... was a no-brainer. I couldn’t seem to get the research out of my

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  As an Urban Studies and Planning major, you can fulfill some of your graduation requirements by spending time abroad. One such class is 11.027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , used to completing psets by Friday morning and then simply sitting on the ... , where I’ll get to talk to EC alumni and eat free pad thai. And afterwards ... that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  . Title: Foliage Dress Description: This dress, inspired by the New ... over to the student center to a different committee, this time to judge ... annual event run by the MIT UA Committee on Sustainability.   I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  Following last week's Lunar New Year post, Joanne got a beautiful ... was created by Jason '09, one of MIT's terrific origami artists. Count ... enthusiasts. We have an active origami club, OrigaMIT. It is currently run by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  's or about getting in to your dream school. "Being the best you can be ... how painfully obvious that was. Of course you have to do your best. How ... because I could. I would get things done, I'd just be sure to calculate how

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  course of my life. Sarah and I moved, freshly affianced, to New Orleans. I ... first place.']Course 9,[/annotation] [annotation note="Trained rats to run left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... to get students to talk to me, but this is understandable -- it took me ... "smart" and it would be a pity if I didn't get to use my brain as much as I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022