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

  

  Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can ... definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... course, solidifying my decision that double majoring in Biology and

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online. There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . Starting in August, I studied prompts and scoured websites. September saw me ... an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  plane, let alone how to get around [annotation note="to be clear, my ... city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The Curious Incidence of a Dog in the Nighttime (one of my favorite books and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  fateful day in September, so long ago. So, no, I have not forgotten about my ... blogs I promised in here will still get written, but I need to finish my ... ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  well). Subin: During my enlisted time in the U.S Army, I had a clear ... , transfer students contour the MIT community in unexpected ways. MIT transfer ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... , unless you had seen me sitting there fidgeting in the waiting room, I don ... Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... problem sets no doubt carefully engineered in some underground pain

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  't buy is "having a major, measurable impact on the world in some way ... particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in ... different translations"]back in Cambridge,[/annotation] I still remember from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I watched Rocketman with two of my roommates. Out of seven people living in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... 's standing only on thin air, he's negating. In improv, when you deny a ... you want to pull it in another direction. you're negating. This rule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... personally identifying information and let the community analyze it, because in ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three ... better video content being produced – and created a final video project in ... in front of a camera and talk about science!" – so it was really great

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  live-action roleplaying group. Over my time in the Guild, I've roleplayed ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  country, build robots, or do work in five countries. I also had no idea that ... ’ve described the lessons that I learned in the order I learned them, but there ... , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... longer Facebook in lieu of working. Then the 133 suite made a Claymation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011 ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio ... ever exchanged with Spencer, the day after we admitted him in March of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  with no end in sight. That nagging, hopeful feeling that you’re so close ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  , but does not[annotation note="in particular, it is not immediately clear ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design ... way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a cube, as most 3D modeling softwares have buttons that'll do just that. In

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019