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• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... listening to: two people, one white, one Black, discussing race relations ... running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall ... How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... th, 2020 Last year, on Saturday, December 19, 2:14 PM CST, I drove to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end ... week that we will not be getting this year, we present to you the very first Senior Week On The Blogs!!!! It is often when things come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  vague desire to go to classes and do work. but i don't actually want to. i wake up and i'm already tired. i no longer know if i want to go to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of ... you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room ... times. i just want to get homework done!! and do nothing else!!! but ever

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... break, expecting to be mostly alone, knowing that it’d be really different ... to people. It’s gotten to me. It’s not that there aren’t people around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  months furiously writing and rewriting their personal essays to [annotation ... those personal essays. I recall really having to dig down deep into what ... continue to learn more as you finish up your application process! To help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... an exam. This semester, I'm going to experiment with rewriting my notes ... can get to [annotation note="now that tumblr is effectively dead, are we

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... applied to transfer, and we have admitted 20. And as usual, we are very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  There are many things in life that require you to have the ever ... . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it ... December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  [annotation note="honestly, i'm definitely going to change this name. please ... the talks happen in my room, which is room 251. the general goal is to talk to lots of different people at MIT about their experiences here, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of Mollie B. '06's post re:MacG remains true, but I may need to update some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017