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  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the smell and sizzling of hot breakfast, and coffee made for me as consolation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem

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

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for ... through boxes of cereal and bunches of fruit until I found something that ... corridors of time, and I ricocheted around the house, asking questions, trying

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches ... broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the ... it does work out, it will take years of love and dedication and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of ... runners stuck around for awards, so Sam got one of the prizes. Have fun with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... events. So today, instead of diving deep into what I’ve been doing all this ... effects of not being stereotypically feminine, which in most cases was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and ... strangers, to Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where we, and thousands more of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following ... , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter

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

  bye (for now)

  

  , so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last spring, i finished my last semester of undergrad in the dead of winter. i ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a

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

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... . Several months of delays occurred due to the state of emergency announcement

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  on top of all of that, financial challenges can make this exponentially harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... .  CASE's overall mission is to improve MIT's community awareness of class disparities

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020