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

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... grade. In fact, for nostalgia or for lack of more complex software, you ... many versions of the same image come in—if it doesn’t look “pretty” then

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... . When I was an undergrad, I UROPed til I dropped, participated in my dorm ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  in class. On Good Friday I have an exam. On Easter Vigil I am here. The ... performers gather in Talbot Lounge and pray. They pray for salvation, for MIT, for a burning revolution in campus spiritualism, for people to know God

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Points full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  writing retreat in Santa Cruz. The place looked like an Airbnb, the kind ... to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on ... didn’t want to pay for airbnb rooms. I had an internship ahead of me, so

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  shadowruns are dot hunts. In a dot hunt, you're looking for these small ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don

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

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  for Switzerland in less than 2 months, so you just freak out, but ... local residential authorities and demonstrate that you've come in ... instagram and snapchat any more unless you're waiting 5 minutes for an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  work in teams, and what qualities to look for in good teammates. I ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... company) for my entire life. I discovered a fear of getting boxed in, a fear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  split into groups of three, and for an entire week, we were in charge of ... , usually trying to complete a challenging problem set, or studying for an ... pictures of tasty-looking non-traditional meals. I’ll either seek them out in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  , for an hour. The result: No, there was no mold in the AC. The room ... for a large part of the day, but the running monologue in my head: "15 ... . 1. Sara asked, if you're not initially selected for an rba dorm but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... , onions or riding bicycles (have fun looking these up). Of course, that ... has a bruise that looks like black death, it still hurts to sit down

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological ... BORING. I went to the post office to mail in an application at midnight ... community, a home away from home. Not only did you see an MIT that came in the

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , code, and launch an idea for an app. We design our own problem statement ... a PM Coach. In the mornings, we have an hour and a half engineering ... here, at least not blatantly. I didn't have an interest in working on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  not knowing how to look for help or how to go about wrestling those ... show me how to look for that motivation, and I'm hoping that I can be that person for you in some small capacity over the Internet. I was able

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though they turned out alright for me): 1) Finish (or start…) your essays

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an ... : Michaela P. '24, major in Biology. I don't really have much of an artist ... dressed in robes that resemble Roman attire to give a scholarly look, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Earth’s. In addition to looking for noble gases, I want to confirm ... . Next, we modeled the magnetic field and sun vectors in an Earth ... vectors to their known values in an inertial Earth-centered frame, we could

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... during high school. Competition here is more difficult for me to spot—in ... . Deal with being in an abusive relationship with a manipulative partner

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021