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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  pset - I found myself lying in bed awake at 4 a.m. And then 5 a.m., 6, 7, until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... if it was because I had coffee too late in the evening, or had slept in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  come together in the end. my classes would finish around 4 pm, and then i ... wishing the show was longer in spite of how tired i was. performing was so ... ecstatic to show them the results of how hard i'd worked over IAP. we weren

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  people who worked in these places. My ex-girlfriend and I would always hope ... sometimes I can’t help but think about how much simpler life would’ve been if ... I had a breakthrough the other day. I was sitting in my favorite

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  realized that I have finite time as a student, and in as much as I would like ... that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  trip and started looking in to how I could attend. Maddie Hickman is ... Maddie and I think that going to the Toy Fair would, in all seriousness, be ... more release info then. Keep in mind, I was in a very toy-oriented mood

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

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  France, and ended up in Spain. Because I was asleep, I don’t remember much ... parking, which I had never seen in a city layout before. It felt like those ... silly getting that cuisine while in Europe, but I really wanted it and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  time that would be comparable to what I’m feeling now would be when I was a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... realities really could be me in a year. And as I continue this whole process

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with ... Student Center steps. I don't know why the lighting in this photo is so ... . In fact, I don't think I'd ever had any sort of Mexican food beyond the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our ... : (This is how I brainstorm most of my doodle entries, for those of you who are curious.) But in any case, if you don't know who I am, all you need

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  , Discover Mechanical Engineering was amazing. I would honestly say that you ... Orientation hits. Also, I learned how to work a lathe, use a bandsaw at an angle ... robot before, so I thought it would be a good time to start (because of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  aware of how you act in certain situations and reflect on whether or not ... and how you might want to fill them in while planning your activities ... brainstorming, I’m partial to lying on the carpet in my living room floor with a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  for a battle in a specific location. I instantly registered and made Dan ... , slaughered, strewn about the battle field. I awoke in the morning and spray ... 've been everywhere in Boston and everybody is sold out. I just want to have

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  professor friends talks about how they’ve been working to improve diversity in ... focus on the class because you feel BURNOUT. you think about how you somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I’m officially a junior (scary!) I figure I've earned some confidence in my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful this was and how i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. missing out on ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  that re-visit to make sure that MIT would make me happy if I got in and ... also knew getting in would be an uphill climb. Oh, and first I had to go ... ’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  I see it the way I do. I was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but I don ... my parent's house in North Carolina. My father teaches me about math and science early, and I get hooked. Sometime in 2000 I read about

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007