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• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  /drinking? A Dunkin' coffee I make at home in my favorite mug is all I need. My ... desk setup in a home office that I NEVER use. I seem to always gravitate ... , I like to read at my desk which is in a corner near my apartment

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  placement is everything. All I did in that cozy room was swap the bed and the ... . Which meant that I spent the busiest week of my year living in a half ... could do much better than that, so I just dove right in and started

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  just say that succeeding in your senior year is doable. But it's a ... Let me start with a confession. Last year, if you had told me that I ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  like this: I took a week long course on how to be a leader in engineering ... other, you might find that one class teaches you how to think in such a ... course, we take that information back to the team and present it in a full

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  , but that’s a different story, a different time). The most I can do is ... earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... note="cj: a first-year advising seminar is a class that some first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... comfortable ride to Hartford. I start looking through the 18.02 pset that is due ... potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... just as much as playing a point. I feel vested in my team members ... , psets, long to-do lists. I've realized - better late than never - how

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  . Doable in a week, even. Little did I know that it would take over a month ... . I'm so, so happy that this is all over. Signing the lease was such a ... that it didn't have a great location; it was close to a highway, so I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  planet or that we were in New York City ready for a day of awesome. We ... settled down in Starbucks to do some PSETing. That worked, um, kinda well ... to 103 And this is how they work: We hung out here for a long time

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  that night. I was actually almost asleep when I recieved a mysterious ... linking to. That afternoon Ruth and I went to The Wrap because there's a 10 ... of the 2005 POPSearch competition. I understand that POPSearch is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  ’t be the only thing—seeing a movie in a theater is more immersive, and I ... but in the sense that I’ve painted a world that reflects something that ... thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a ... ) minutes and then go to bed. But if I start a book, that book is getting finished, that night. Partly, this is because I'm lucky enough to be a really

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  Macbook for a few months, right? How well has that worked out for you? I ... conversation: ME: But you think this is a good idea? HIM: As in, doing it? ME ... : I'm gonna say that Windows Vista is going to look very Mac-ish when it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  has nothing to do with my ability to take you in a fight. The reason I could take you in a fight is that while you're worshipping at the altar of ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been ... is more trouble than it's worth. I still plan to own a car later in life, if doing so is practical, but for day-to-day commutes, I'm having a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... writing on a tablet, but we'll see. And that's it!  That's all I have in ... once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  fork in the road, and every choice feels weighty in a place that you’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I ... I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  -so-secret artistic talent that can be celebrated"]Nobody is going to do a great job ... a little grumpy about it. That being said: I know that conversational ... ="mentally stylized as Draw ______ but maybe that is bad branding"]"Draw a Blank

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for ... recently completed one, which I finished a month ago is also multipurpose

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  come down to the studio and do 30 minute shows, I might impersonate a ... Wednesday, I went to a Bhangra performance. I was inspired to learn how to ... won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005