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  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple ... greater, just as you do. Which brings me back to my own life. I have ... bathroom keep asking me what I am going to do with my life, and I just don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  transfection I'm doing. He mentions that he doesn't have a particular plasmid ... whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even ... tells me to wait a few more minutes, so I play the "what was I doing on

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

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

  

  '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 ... , not everyone who joins a Guild game or comes to Squares will do one of

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

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she ... taking an Uber to the airport when the driver asked what I do.  Me: “I use

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such ... beliefs about what you will do with your life. It is also okay to not know ... probably don't know! 4. How do some people manage to take 6 classes at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  exists and therefore we study it. I don't formally study it, but I do care ... let the breath out for at least six seconds (even longer if you can). Do ... 't seem as terrible anymore. When I told my mom that we planned on doing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  't even have my license yet. But none of this has to do with my intelligence ... to do with my intelligence; I'm just rambling. You got A's because you ... really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  MIT and want everyone to feel empowered to do it too. MIT is not just a ... junior year and three more tales of junior year. I plan to do more sketch ... sorting, editing, and selecting photos. Final takeaway: do not work on a

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

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  frustrating if you want to go do, but it’s a nice excuse to just be. Ben ... want to do when they get out. It means that the MISTI kids are precisely ... injuries from heart attack, strokes, and liver damage. TL;DR: I am doing a

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

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... totally awesome via People Sleeping In Libraries ...figure out what to do ... great/hellish time anyways. ...figure out what to do with my life? Okay

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• 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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  we keep doing these things, not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good But because failing to do them is guaranteed to make us feel ... situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  very differently than publishing in medical research, for example! Doing ... to do this. Unfortunately, I didn't finish this game fast enough for ... you try to squeeze why you're doing this study, what you found out, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a ... human I'd ask them yes haikubot is now starting to do really really

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

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  'm running out of clean clothes. The instructor says "What do you guys think?" and I am currently unable to think. Do I hear a weed-eater or a ... as I do. In this lecture, the instructor and TAs have left their

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... begin to understand just how many things there are to learn. 4) Do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... application processes – this is about the worst thing you can do when applying ... important thing to do is to get your bearings. Whether it's your dorm, the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  even knew anyone who was in their 20s, but now you do, and I am here to ... of Thrones in one sitting. (I would never do that! I hate Twizzlers ... with a stipend!) by MIT. (Please, please do this. If you need help

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... to keep at it, trying to run four days a week and do miscellaneous free

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  works, what else can you do? Like The Blogfather said, the “fun and ... point. But really, do it because it’s the best way to learn about your ... pretty unique place, and people do things differently on the outside. Ask

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018