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  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is ... be too much. I’m doing a [annotation note="through MIT’s program to ... internship is basically 9-5, and then I have a lecture and a recitation for 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research ... the design of a bioreactor. Basically, the goal of the bioreactor is to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  narrative effect of Zuko fighting an infection is such a clever and beautiful way of showing the audience how painful it is to change on a deep, fundamental level. Just as the body fights infection, Zuko is engaged in a

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  talked a little bit about trees. As you know, they grow from seeds, much ... In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how ... to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a ... they loved it so much. So that's what I think in a nutshell: try new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT. there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got ... to graduate school; it is not a second chance at being at MIT, but it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to ... down. One thing you should know for sure is that the much acclaimed ... HOLY COW GUYS! CPW IS ALMOST HERE (42 minutes as of right now) You

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  final only counts for 20%! Today, we discussed how a neuron is like a ... to be able to keep all five, but if it is too much work then I will ... I've been in. Probably a third of it is grad students, and while 9 is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  how expensive grad school is. Do you know much about how jobs and ... just learned that my AP Calculus AB grade for my first semester is not a ... in Economics, and I'd love to attend a school that is strongly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  seasonal allergies.” “My mom tells me my sneezing is rude.” “How much more ... how old you are, this can equate to a whole lot of sneezes you have ... times in a single minute! This type of sneezing is dangerous, especially

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  , I have a largely different definition of how much living space is ... what you think teleportation is, a formal definition of teleportation and how this new research achieves this goal. And the best part is that this

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  , classes are settling into a rhythm, the pumpkin takeover is underway, and I ... thoughts spill over into blogs and vlogs. So, this is a warmup post, a ... from the Charles River – how cool is that? CMS.307 - Critical

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , that's a pretty good school too. I don't know how much college reputation ... a small, noncompetitive high school? I'm a little worried about how ... "not admitted" thread on Ben's blog, this school is not a bastion of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  they don't tell you is that doing so is sometimes not so much like a ... based on how familiar with the person I am, how much I know about the topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  blissfully ignorant of what it truly was.  This is a lot of what aging and ... my level of perfection is tested, parading myself around to fit into a ... modern feminist movements is something I cannot comment on nor relate to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  ultimate target for admits is this year. A few notes, for the record: Your ... , truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether ... received a decision by Wednesday. On Friday, we'll begin giving decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  the spire again is downfall, a huge expansion mod that adds so much ... , because god is it cold outside. my how fast the seasons change [carousel ... that, i've done a decent amount of website work, which is great

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  living room. Home fit like a glove knitted for a three-toed box turtle ... , exacerbated by the burden of dessert. Here is a tortuous coconut ice cream with ... Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is your solution to a problem, pi is the ith particular subproblem, and s ... incredibly difficult to make work correctly, so we abandoned it for a much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011