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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  himself), then sit down at the computer and turn on my (illegal but oh ... :30-9:10 -- Check CC, everybody's blogs, Google News, and a bunch of Live ... line for, order, and purchase a cheese sandwich at the Stata Center

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate. At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Med, or at least google scholar. (Xkcd 2007). I know, it sounds quite ... was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... fact, that at times it will irrefutably convince you that it is not

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  switch to Day 5 immediately. I care about the academic work I’ve done at ... : Part 2, written in late freshman spring, got really dark at the end, then ... Pictures of 2017. By then, I memorized all the contents of my Google Photos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  I was at least three times. I live in the university dorms which are ... , necrosis, and autophagy. My project looks at a protein, humanin, that ... get squeezed out of my Google Calendar. The weekends are an incredible

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I ... . (Sidenote: Who's ridiculously excited about Google Spreadsheets? This girl!) 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  across College Confidential. At first, it seemed like a rare gem - a unique ... colleges I had a chance at getting into. It’s too bad all of those answers ... independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  all three. Long story short, as is always the case at MIT, your ... at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... will wake up. So, at around 3am, after six snoozes on three different

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  China in June, UROPing in Boston with a surprise stint at some Google ... needed to fulfill my HASS-Arts requirement (we’re required to take at least ... Manipulation and Mechanisms Laboratory at MIT, fondly nicknamed the MCube lab. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  population because: 1) I've never learned to code* at MIT (requirement for all engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering ... give me a break before you start berating me D: rawr! A quick look at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• 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 ... ; furthermore, people walk at close to three miles per hour, or sixty blocks per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... schedule for spontaneous things. Don’t overcommit at the beginning. It ... “I’m not sure.” Smile and wave at everyone you know, even if they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... look at my shoes. I was thinking that I was glad that I wasn’t alone, and ... receptionist at the desk gave me some forms to fill out, so I busied myself with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• 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 ... that I'm not very good at Course 6, and as a result, not very good at ... to jobs every year that they are at MIT. Yes, you heard me - that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination. In a brain ... -tanned shoulders the Disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  hyperbole, is it."]smart.[/annotation] # Most of us are not that way at MIT ... thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... surprised when it’s a struggle. I have done this before, caught myself at a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... mentored juniors, got selected as Google Student Ambassador and met many ... to shape it. Thank you for it. :) :) Hope things are good at your end

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  also feature practice questions with solutions at the bottom.    ... sheets and study guides that get sent to your email when you sign up at ... not fit in this blog so at the bottom of this section is a link to a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve changed during my time at MIT, and I ... literally 0 times) at 10PM on Thursday. (It's not fun, in case you were ... people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017