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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  that hits me right in the feels. For the magically-inclined: The ... There are many things in life that require you to have the ever elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... will all crowd in the kitchen for waffles and a good time, and I cannot ... exhilarates because it means forward action, and not just in classes, but in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  credits, T is a temporary placeholder for a class still in transit, and P ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... ” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure, the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in ... ", but preparation was required for our various adventures. We bought (in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  in Cell. (For anyone who follows science journal impact factors, this ... lab for two and a half years, I know what I'm doing in a technical sense ... talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... South Station, sat down in a train bound for Philadelphia, and collapsed ... my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  , but he's definitely in the mood to look for a snack. Then you bait two ... But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain ... nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  music tastes as we waited for exposures in the tiny, dark observatory in ... passions in so many different areas that conversations could go on for hours ... 39 day summer program in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics, or

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  in the 'sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have ... to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  -law - Seen (and lived in, for a few days) my dad and stepmother's huge new ... term, my body can't normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if ... most days - occasionally two meals and/or no dessert - but when I'm in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we ... break and spring break, we do personal art for the first time in months of ... A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  you’re already in college or still in high school. Even for just a ... side of the road for free water in paper cups then getting right back to ... 'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... kitchen[/annotation] until 8:50, which is around when i usually clock in for ... is remarkably unpopulated - peep the tiny city we stopped in for gas in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  place for me to be, I kept thinking to myself. But, in the long run, what ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in ... The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  for a new major. I had always been interested in physics, mostly ... that engineering had more in store for me than that. Because as I ... for me in the mechanical engineering department.  The idea began to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  for meeting students all over New England. In keeping with MIT”s Latin ... Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of ... in your studies and look out for our next program.   Alpha Kappa

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  home) by letting me in on their pass. I was unsuccessful for 10 minutes ... in love with my car, or any cars for that matter. I finally gave up on ... DID YOU KNOW? The longest recorded kiss took place in New York City

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006