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  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting ... yourself when you do. This post burgeoned from my experience with 20.109, or ... you do, don’t stop reading until you’ve learned the complete history and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a ... never quite believe--because I had no idea what I was doing at the time ... isn't as good, and there is more fog and kale. And I still do go back

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  . The day had been fairly normal so far, if unfocused: my Google Calendar ... to bet that some fresh air and a fresh perspective would do you some

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... . We all love a rags-to-riches story, and so do all the writers who

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the ... idea what I wanted to do.  Focusing your job search on mechanical ... had helped me figure out what I wanted to do with my life, guided me to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... doing so I realized that I wasn't exactly interested in where that planet ... mentored juniors, got selected as Google Student Ambassador and met many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do ... a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  had a Google Calendar (and I still don't use any form of electronic ... helping hand - hey, we've all been there before! * Generally, you are doing ... . Studying usually involves doing problem sets (the equivalent to homework in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... 's wrong with OAuth? I don't remember what their answers were, but I do ... anything from doing weekly setup and teardown, to helping organize one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... same diff it doesn't change what you would actually do per project ... decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm ... welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood ... native tongue. If you know what to do you know what to do. If you don

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn ... to work, and continued to do an even worse job. It slowly sunk in: it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  internships at the [annotation note="like microsoft, apple, google"]big tech ... bet that you guys are doing this with the "Why do you want to apply to ... here]". It makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong, even though I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... really wasn’t concerned where because I had no idea what I was going to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  having to do community service, which confused me because our school didn’t have any such requirement. When I asked why he was doing it, he said it ... lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to ... "Applying Sideways" blog, it's more important that you do things you love when

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p ... people in my wing, like “What do you miss most from high school?” or “Draw ... ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  the fun way and most of your friends do it with you. —TK '23 walking ... in the end but it feels mostly awful while you do it (even though you ... how to do one lap of freestyle successfully five minutes beforehand

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... around the clock, doing homework, sleeping, whatever. Most were bloggers ... , MIKE YANG. DO YOU HAVE ANY KIDS? DO YOU??? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... that package? It was all I could do to balance my sanity between the ... real glimmer of hope emerged. You do have a chance, I told myself. Penn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014