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  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... to have a system that's working for me now and impressing myself with ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  prizes to give away to our participants. MIT students will do a lot for ... sight.” It didn't work. Once we had a winner for Game 1, we decided to ask ... [reasoning] described above, it would be rational for him/her to guess a number

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  bandwidth to pay attention to them now. a few days after i turned in my thesis ... , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  it’s very common for a student like me to be able to email their ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that ... thinking that you're writing a report I would like to share with you an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... generated three-line poems with a couple words in each line I’d be bound to ... gay heart the gay heart is a device for confucious to tell haikus that

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

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... reach for the original dream. Allow me I guess to imagine glory, a handful ... E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  to a highly technical school like MIT, yet for some reason they gave my ... of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow ... being a college student for once. The easy way out, though, was to load

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  capacity for what really matters. But at a certain point, it's our job to ... ."]individual application[/annotation] to MIT. But I don't think you should be alarmed for a ... have for dinner. I looked to the left, and the right, and back again

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... be a "tool" is just a way to avoid trying to find out who you are as a ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few

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

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  had to ask a friend with tools to do this for me. Thank you Shophaus ... . I picked what we were going to make: a replacement for a makeshift ... tools, and had the guts to try and complete a big and beautiful project. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This ... , he took my textbook for a night to review the material (he couldn ... graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last

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

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... listen to a stranger’s conversation? Our professor, Shariann Lewitt, tells ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space ... spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... person to leave my wing of Next House. I rolled my possessions in a cart up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... sent it to my parents as a passive cry for help. My dad realized pretty ... for her is probably to go. I remember my parents being frustrated—a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for ... AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started ... , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence ... me that due to the Law of Conservation of Freshmen, I'll still be a ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011