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  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... that place. Even if you're already medium-happy." I'm used to being ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  on my Google Calendar has been blocked out to finish my Target blog and ... needed to get through this. And thank you to the Academy. See you next ... that I can do big fun things that contribute nothing towards my to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... starts working on the kitchen table, next to me. I get my laptop and do the ... or Epsilon Theta, an independent living group that happens to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  friends, you're likely to finish the movie and the pizza and get into a ... 't personally get into Boston much during the week, and on a weekday night you're ... , pretending to do homework. Marriage Anonymous asked, what are your thoughts on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  or forget to check Google Tasks, as I am wont to do: "Feed Kristina ... for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  your legs and the feeling of your throat getting dryer. In that moment ... though you’re sweating profusely, small hairs sticking to your forehead and ... the world. The wind blows through your hair and the ground seems to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... pigeons until we got to the ski site. [caption id="attachment_109035" align ... turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  Google search did nothing to dissuade my increasing heart rate as phrases ... hours of sleep; maybe you get pneumonia and have to drop some classes. But ... 2016. Today Claire has achieved her dream and is goin to share this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying to sell books. Ask around your dorm, spam the email lists, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... of the blogs know, I prefer to bike to work anyway, and the MBTA gets

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  believe that the economists might have something useful to say about this topic. Questions to be taken up include, but are not limited to: Is ... help? What can we do about corruption? Should we leave it all to markets

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  attempts to answer each prompt. (So no, you can’t get a robot to write your ... didn’t need to find a GPU to run it, because Google Colab makes it easy to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You’re ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... facts, but you get the idea. I want to tell you about Paul, because Paul

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... 's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit ... weather started to get colder and people started to get hosed and burnt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... about getting used to moving on the broom and handling the ball with just ... interested in playing us as well. Email quidditch-execs at mit dot edu to get

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  accumulate after your first three trips to Shaw’s (our local grocery store ... in your mouth. Beanbag When I first came to MIT I bought a butterfly ... yours It’s become important to me that my space feels mine, so that when

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to ... calculus. You'll enjoy your time here more if you get a full experience

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  " you get to do to keep your life functioning. Things like, making sure to ... average amount of time, and enough discipline to get my work done, but not ... responsibilities, because it's a lot easier to stay afloat when there's air in your

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019