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• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  signed up for because I missed math and I haven’t taken anything here ... tells me about the time he signed up for a nutritional deficiency study in ... -night-psetting, which results in me curling up in an incoherent ball for a couple of days

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  struggling for a bit too long to make the base of my lamp, I gave up on it and ... prayers up for anyone who will have to witness this upcoming monstrosity ... /or procrastinating. Just a few days ago, I beat my all-time record for cutting it close

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  , runner. I signed up for running mainly because I was not coordinated enough ... folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for ... . Yes, I ran this loop mostly around 3-4 AM after wrapping up studying for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my ... . Cooking for thirty people was no easy task. Every year, a menu would go up ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  the occasion. At the Hunt wrap-up — presented as an awards show for ... teams’ performances Video of the wrap-up And now for some details of ... As you may have picked up from my post about SOPA, I'm an unashamed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  health just for a "P" to show up? It's learning to look at how the grade is ... abilities to wake up for those 9ams. Be smart and reasonable about your ... .) 21. CHOOSE YOUR CI-H VERY CAREFULLY. Before you sign up for that CI

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  review book for economics was REALLY thin, right?) I ended up getting a 3 ... be a killer, since after the Physics test and some dinner, I ended up working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  the two of us ended up together for the long haul -- if you can live in ... was taken up planning for graduate school applications. I picked a list ... last summer, and I'm excited about catching up on House and Monk episodes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9 ... , admiring all the trees. For the past two years, I’ve spent more time away ... research, how she structured edits, how she searched for agents. It doesn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  up, shoulders relaxed. thru face closed. pressure on my partner’s shoulder, but not too much. whisk. bend knees on one, back up on two. down up three, down up three. forward forward lock forward, and i step, step

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  plumbing for the water screen all still works. It has wheels for easy ... before. In fact, I know the guy who made it, so it made for a great story ... awesome it truly was, so it was time for a field trip. I asked if anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  2 of FSGP, we had racked up enough laps to qualify for ASC and despite ... afternoon of July 3rd, the team members frantically packed up every tool and ... we met more team members who flew in for the competition. After a few

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  , I'm not registered for any classes until next week, and I have ... for so many votes, but in the end it all worked out (I hope!). My prize ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  up, we're old and practically married and boring), and researched air conditioners for the new apartment. Now ask me how much I've studied for my ... Partners @ MIT. Very helpful! A revision A few entries ago, I said For what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  Denmark I was up for anything. Swimming after work in the icy northern ocean ... seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to string together enough coherent sentences for much blogging.  Now it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family for August. I was continuing my research with the Isola lab on inner

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  looking up a recipe for it. it tasted okay, but the texture was wrong – too ... couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent ... good. I spent all of 2020 cooking for myself, starting from when I was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  it in 2021. my acceptance transferred over a year, which made for an ... applied to dozens of companies. I got numerous rejections...roles for ... gave up and committed to finding an internship with an Israeli startup

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  Friday, up until 5 pm, at which point I promptly turn off my brain for the ... here. I am here because I want to be. I choose to wake up at 6 for crew ... 've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... semester I loaded up on project classes. All three of my technical classes ... uncharacteristic amount of work. So what ended up looking like an average semester is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018