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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  and awe-inspiring.) "I learned a lot of different things from different ... think I can confidently generalize that we all like a challenge. (Adam ... 't work for me. I do consider myself to be a "self-starter" (you almost have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  think I have a fictional character crush on Piz. I can’t help it, he ... season is starting! I don’t know for sure, but I’d say you can expect to ... entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  A couple days ago, I received an email from a blog reader who asked ... say "I'm done." So how can all this be fun? Response 1. You never do a ... fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  things: an escape, a hobby (for some), a distraction, a connector. I can ... exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly content being nothing but a spectator. I think we can all agree when I say

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  organizing events for Brain Tumor Awareness Week with MIT BrainTrust. I ... process a zillion times before, and I can’t imagine that I would have been ... , anyway. And the hope that one day I can get my hands on a time turner

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  about laptops for MechE. I have a different answer now than I've had in the past. If you buy a new laptop now from almost any manufacturer, it ... Vista for XP (MIT will give you a free copy of Windows XP). 2) Buy a Mac

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  , which currently owns my life. And I apologize for that. But I'm back, and ... hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is ... connected to Star Market, where most MIT students buy their groceries if they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  president for a year. If you don't like where you're temped, you can move ... years ago (SERIOUSLY THIS CAN'T BE RIGHT I'M NOT OLD ENOUGH FOR THIS), got ... decided to take it, as I got a 5 on the AP Bio exam and got credit for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , writing this, still dressed in my clothes from the day. 4) I ate a lot of Clif bars today. Oops. 5) I got up at 9 today to buy groceries for a ... spent away from the people I care most about. It's all such a balancing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  ) My power cord broke. Okay, that's annoying, but I can borrow a friend ... Snapfish account when I was there for a MISTI internship in the Summer of ... won't send mail from Germany to the US. Even though I also have a US

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  ’s insane. Every time I drink water from the tap, I can still hear my parents ... , and daylight savings time. Coming from a place where the sun rose and ... it in a week or two. Here, I can get it delivered in two or three days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  friends and a great support system, but academically I'm unsuited for MIT. I ... where I wake up and I'm excited to learn. Recently, I've been having a lot ... 've been trying to write out into words for a long time. I'm really scared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ’s bedtime I am going to email my supervisor for a sanity check maybe I am ... to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10 ... pump really does do the pumping” I would not buy these pumps   2

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  when I can find time. Hope you guys are having a great start to your ... grow up, to learn from each other and to trust each other and to actually be friends. I know of course that this can't be forced, but I also know

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... -Conner where I just happened to mention being from South Dakota ... [/annotation] from South Dakota this year. Naturally, I put all of them on a mailing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  and projects, I had gotten an extension for a paper for my [annotation ... landed in Louisiana, I was ready to not think about work for a week ... , after all, so we settled for buying a deck of tarot cards and eating some

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  different from Harvard where even if you are a student, you are often met with ... a game of time management.  For example, I was a perfectionist about ... -driven" is a euphemism for "impatient", but hey, it describes me.  I think) I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  use. I got it as a gift from my mom and it works pretty well for my ... ground myself a lot better with where I was in the world and specifically ... clicking a checkbox on a computer screen. I used to use a planner for school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  a sad week for me. It was a short week, but the longest week I've had ... had one recitation and a few other committments for Tuesday, and I threw ... , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  was he hoping for something more? While Mike was a nice dude, I wasn ... searching for a partner. And I’m not dissing my exes, as they are really cool ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023