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  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  . Realize time is going by too quickly. And let time pass though. ... song: Passing Through (Can't the Future Just Wait) by Kaden MacKay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  made time for things that made me happy. Everything seemed to be going ... . Probably like how macaroni and cheese would be if it were made by an ... online readings for whatever I needed to finish my paper by Tuesday 2pm

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me ... 't very, very quick (because it is), but I've definitely found that it's way

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  biographical information. I’m not being paid to say this, but I thought the MIT ... to someone else since she was too busy to interview me (as one might be ... requested by other schools as supplements (shoutout to MIT’s mini-essays). I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  in a tissue and is a rare occurrence that sometimes has to be ... extensions on it. Note to self: Extensions are good. I saw a hawk on the way to ... be. I first settled on writing about political echo chambers created by

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  quick text message to Eric Schmiedl, a quick "I'll be right there!" and ... As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM ... going to be a good night. At ten, Javi '08, Jordan '11, Dan '11, and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  classrooms around MIT! I think it'll be a great way to get our steps in and ... for the day, we took a quick run to Target and bought all our kitchen ... this one. Perhaps not...the best? solution? But it's a great way to stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  Cassvita, Pelkins hopes there will be a way to monetize cassava more ... and phone line closures orchestrated by the government to control the ... I have been amazed by the lengths many African students are willing to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about ... get into bed, to be honest. The springed bedframe has lots of possible spaces to hook hangers, so I hang a lot of clothes below my bed this way as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  to the codebase has to be checked by at least one engineer, who has a ... , up-and-coming tech scenes like Pittsburgh are the way to go. The cost ... save fingers from being julienned too. Then, they transitioned to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught ... , atmospheric gases of power I could contemplate, be overwhelmed by, but not fully ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  completely agree that it should not be a competition to see who takes the most ... kid. I had 14 (by year, this broke down to 1-3-8-2) and I had a life ... interesting way to get my county-required humanities credit than the school

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  over final plans on the way to the subway: Improv Everywhere's No ... train, went upstairs to the main terminal, and were greeted by this ... supposed to act, and then split us into groups. We ended up being in his

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... you to be able to use and manipulate it. It's one of the (if not the ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they’re just things that happen to be more on the mind lately ... , blogging, and my values.  time: This section talks about different ways to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  information common to all applicants, which can be very helpful to admissions ... applicants considered to be the best 'match' for that school. They generally ... children will be admitted to the best colleges for them, regardless of where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn ... . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful, because I was surrounded by people who wanted to see me fail. This dynamic

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there ... attract plenty of people out for a stroll, but they tend to be dominated by ... is some implicit obligation to be nice, or worse yet cheerful and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  ’s like to actually be a student here, or that I've helped you in your own ... pretending to be someone I’m not on these blogs, no use in trying to write ... post, one of my goals for this year was to be authentic. To show the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021