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  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  of the semester, where I try to stay a week ahead of my work and wonder ... imagine a day where I’d run out of milestones to accomplish and things to ... to find a better balance between working and not-working, and it

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  's hard to find a moment where I don't feel it, to tell the truth. If there ... possible to find your people at MIT. On a gut instinct, I ranked Burton ... ; I feel it when I'm trying to find a place to study between classes and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  particular this week. I find it good to get a nice balance between fiction ... busy. Although I’m still busy, I like finding time to escape in a book ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... to create a model for global engagement for students and their partner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax ... little closer, it wasn't hard to see that East Campus had a niche for ... new, to the point where I couldn't possibly see the magic of this place

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  Pecker, but if you're willing to lump a bioengineering, bioengineering ... flavor of nerdiness.  If you choose to climb up all three and a half ... a year."]limited to, [/annotation] 2 [annotation note

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  ... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  ’d walk along the beach for a stroll, hoping to find one. We did this for more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , when the future (the one where you have to be a responsible adult and ... With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... starts to make sense. And even if it doesn't, you find some happy memories

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  by ridiculously fast, and now, I find myself back on campus, wondering where the last two weeks went - and getting excited about IAP :) As Jenny mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... to sleep. But there is learning to be done! So I make a mental note to ... classes ended, I ate a quick lunch and hurried off to my writing tutor

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  lost, in a world where others don't seem to be. feeling reluctant to open ... one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... a lyft, or the caltrain, i find myself sleeping. it's not that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  ), you'll talk to your fellow students and find that their acceptances and rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A ... happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all ... to how we structured each rep. After each strenuous climb, we spent a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  waking a disgruntled Mr. Neha, and going to sleep. I dream of a time where ... locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy ... . There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  came, it was gone, and I was left to plod my way through a weird liminal ... resolution to stay on top of everything. I remember being a freshman this time ... as close to the ground as possible, or that I’m a mid-day showerer (not

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  couldn't find me, so I had a nice half hour to reflect about choices ... demonstrated with every blog entry why he was destined to become a successful doctor and I was destined to become a twice-terminated project manager in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  "Observatory," which was a small clearing of trees and an overturned canoe where you can sit and watch the stars.  Five of us went to follow him on a ... . The cabin was a small hike from where we parked our cars on the street

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  with a visit to Sally Lunn’s house where the famous Sally Lunn Bun was ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with ... to be able to attend and meet amazing people who shared such a strong desire to have a positive impact in the world.   Aldrich Hall, part

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016