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

  

  every excuse to keep working on them. Ok, now that you have sharpened your ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an ... hours dedicated to grinding out reports for this course, I have finally

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  another campus. You are not going to have enough time in your life to say ... every minute of your day so that you never have the time to look down and ... many opportunities for you to have. There will be so many times when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• 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

  

  . Learn about MIT mailing lists. Make your own. Make time to get off campus ... whipping out your phone/laptop in class to “check email” or “google something ... learn is yours to decide. Take your estimate of how much time you think

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

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  only got a 760 on the SAT I math and I don't have time to retake it and I ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you ... identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  don’t have to play musical laptops at airport security. (If your ... Engineering), you will have to submit your 6.006 (Introduction to Algorithms ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  your resume is time-consuming. You have to make sure that literally every ... this way, because a lot of people just have no time to relax the entire ... consumes your life during your senior fall of high school, applying to

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

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... rankles to have to take time off when you feel like you shouldn't need to ... you: I have no doubt that you will get through this time to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and ... suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  auto-rejected because conference reviewers don't have time to try to fix ... 'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... was going to have me submit to the Student Game Design Competition in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  third time I have tried to write this blog post sharing what MIT taught me ... 't set a goal to graduate from MIT on time, I would have never made it ... you and other runners leaving at your time will sort of swirl, in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . That same Monday was my next exam for 6.005 so I didn't have time to ... your experience was like mine, many people were doubting you. To you ... to have to face every second of every day until the day comes that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the time that I didn’t have to be around other people, I would retreat ... , you just have to seek small victories, like showering and doing your ... ridiculously hard and stretch your limits. But you also have to take care of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  time I have to decide between doing something with my friends and ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... [annotation note="this is not equivalent to hedonism (picking the fastest route

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I

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

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  to live in these places until your second year at MIT. Figure 1b ... occasionally terrifying. Both have weird rooms and passageways to explore and ... rumored to live. But we don’t have a sorting hat, so I made a sorting hat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ’t consistent and barely was significant. It’s not that I didn’t have time to ... so… I don’t even know what to say. If you’re reading this, you ... "]two meals.[/annotation] To settle these foolish thoughts, we decided to have a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Boston, or have no choice but to eat my screen.   5. First time ... college trying to get a degree. 20. People have lived my life five times ... important. Knowing you have things to look forward to, even if you’re not

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  have time to turn your grade around and pass the subject, so responding ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... can help it, drop the class. Balance: 1) Have something to take your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  't have time to interview more people (that could be an entire thesis ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with ... is so cool but also you have to pick something. Or else. *ominous music

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015