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  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I

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

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to charge until I gave the plug a little jiggle. The odd thing was that I was

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that are due on Jan. 1. And while what I'll say now is just my opinion ... , etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  I know that you all hate us right now and I don't blame you. I would too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really didn't know. I don't hide things from you; I never have and I never will

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  all about the BBQ and fun with friends. I took in the action from Baker where I lived my freshman year. Here are a few pictures and videos from ... + Slip and Slide I told you I was accident-prone. A little wet

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to start with things that have remained the same since I left MIT. My love of

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... next year, hopefully teach you what not to do. I started early. Like

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No starting over. No delays to tomorrow, next week, or next month. No more "I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  i really loved joon's everyday post, so here is my own unnecessarily detailed day! watch as i stumble my way through like sixteen hours without ... scale: the lines are 30m, or 100ft. 6.02 am: i wake up abruptly from a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  My Mets are seriously kicking some you-know-what lately. I love it ... ? also, just out of curiosity, and its totally okay i you don't feel ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los ... than last Sunday. I am, unfortunately, not on that flight because it was ... past year. Every time I've been at an airport, it was either to say hello

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be ... years at mit, i can say i feel more settled into myself than ever before. i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... over somewhere else. When people assured me that I wouldn't be spending all my time working on classes, I believed it. Two. On registration day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  (Read part 1!) I will start with a disclaimer--there are definitely things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... , healthy environment while still maintaining our academic rigor. One thing I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I'm taking [annotation note="Introduction to Education"]CMS.586 ... physics class every Tuesday and an algebra class every Wednesday. i. on going (back) to public school I went to an evangelical Christian school

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... , you know, starting at MIT). But time just keeps going, and I’ve more or ... outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  weeks ago i was leaving seattle, thinking about summertime and trying not ... a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to take a nap. 1.5 hours later, I wake up and start frantically packing. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015