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  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... with this summer, but I do feel like I am starting to get a better hold ... books to practice, I spend a lot of time getting back into Blender (a 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  on days like this bright Sunday afternoon, when I get time to sit and ... brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I ... ’ve gone to office hours in my best pair of pajamas. I’ve turned 30 minute

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  both great for finding UROP/MEng advisors as well as getting your name ... advice is to make a list of the classes that you're interested in finishing ... FOOD in bright red text. To be fair these posters are targeted to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  last day to drop classes and have them disappear from your transcript ... of songs and have them sung to your sweet heart/friend/sorority sister ... heart throb of more than one female I know. To get a taste of this, here

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  plowing makes it easier for me to get to my class which starts at three ... , walkway, and a red thing... its uhhh, getting harder and harder to sing ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build ... ’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that ... that sentiment: i find it difficult to get people to pay attention to me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  passage of time I’ve had a better opportunity to get to know them. This year however I’ve reached the maximum time that I will have to ever get to know a ... important. They could stay up and get things accomplished when they needed to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way ... their connections and try to find a placement for you. MISTI will also get ... , giving you the chance to specifically put your resume in to apply for that

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is ... 's definitely not hard to get an internship for the summer. First, there are ... stay on campus for the summer, so it's extremely easy to get a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You’re ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... facts, but you get the idea. I want to tell you about Paul, because Paul

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  well in advance and just toss it together when your guests get there. Sometimes she has to go get some flowers or something from her friends, so she ... just testing to make sure that your camera still works?" "Oh, I just want

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  , with every entry, if you're the first person to name the musical artist ... Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of ... 'm just not in any condition to compose a proper blog entry today. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  yours -- "You have grit - the single most important factor to succeed in ... applying to things and places I didn't think I was actually qualified to get ... me that I wasn't going to get it, but I tried anyway in large part

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  blank canvas without any idea of what stroke you're going to do next. It ... Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... I want them to?" And in a way, MIT has helped me get through this. My

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  , I have no idea who you are or what you’re like, but I’m here to ... to learn and what you’re willing to do to learn.  MIT has its way of ... If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved ... . =) But I'll do my best to answer all of your questions and direct curious ... get caught. I guess you'd have to actually get caugh to figure it out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  was a completely opened ended opportunity to design your own printed ... what features you want your circuit board to have. The components I ... where you bring your schematic to life. How will these connections and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really ... Hampshire to ski down a 4,000 foot mountain. Your call! A few days before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... 't get the movie back on and he was just going to drive to Portland. So, I don't know what prompted that, but we ended up getting to the city about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  with the dormitories being so self-selecting. You get to choose where you ... !!1!cos(0)! Ever wanted to be a teenage girl? Well now's your chance ... . We'll show you how to use Zephyr to hang out with friends, get help

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015