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  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  dendritic spines. As someone may or may not have ever told you (I know they ... electron microscope. This is called the postsynaptic density, or PSD. The ... 't many/any receptors or scaffolds outside spines. Ohmigod, I did not make

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  in place of class names will be prevalent, but don't worry - I've linked to class descriptions for all of these.) 1) Math. Many of you will take 18.01. If you've taken the AP Calculus BC exam and scored a 4 or

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  , Sarah, Lauren, Jordan, and everyone else! Some additional data entry ... after the document is entered into the system, it will show up in the ... documents have arrive, been entered, and been filed -- a cover sheet will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... family or galaxy. You will actively seek other MIT people out. When others ... , you literally are, have been or will be every person. That after this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  round of poker or mobile game hyperfixation the night before a midterm ... . Before I knew it, I was “pset-ing” or [annotation note ... about when i'd say “course 6” rather than “compsci” or “18.02” rather than

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  more than a year, or so. My episodes of extreme productivity placed me on ... -Cambridge, Simon’s in Porter Square, or Darwin’s in Central Square."]local coffee ... , rdng szn, available on Spotify or Apple Music. And I’ll be adding more as

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision ... . Decisions.mit.edu will be available through the decision date for applicants ... [email protected] with your full name and mailing address. Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I ... not reach a conclusion." - George Bernard Shaw 8:00-9:00 pm Economics ... amazing panel, and here are the questions I asked: 1. Please briefly

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  either boil sweet potatoes, then peel them... Or you can cheat and buy ... really is exact. What you need: Salmon filets 1 bag - Plantain Chips Salt ... sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  might have or concerns you want to address. So whether you've already ... English up with which I will not put!"), but I'm currently listening to my ... 't been thinking about blogging, or continuously scratching down ideas for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  has the power to bring people up or tear them down. Make them count or ... will smile back. And science says you’ll be happier too! Not everything has to be profound or over-analyzed. Some things can just exist. Some

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  am. This exponentially increases the probability that I will do or say ... +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... was, or did. I don't think I ever actually went to NASA; maybe I went to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -esque contortions, I will sell more bottles of highlighter-colored water than anyone ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... ) -- other people were not so conventional. So how did these historical ... stuck onto our backs displayed the name of someone else's historical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... semiweekly reading handouts, the oral debate, or the 3 essays we've crafted, I ... the next week or two, I'll continually edit my letter (so check back for

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... world and contracts, pulling the blue piston to the left. The air is again ... , but nothing like drawing, painting, or sculpture (correct me if 'm wrong

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I'm stocked with pencils about five times now.  I think I've done all ... campus to get to Walker Memorial where the entire auditorium will fill with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  your drawers forever. People always joke out of making quilts or ... made!). Thankfully, it reached safely, and after a few weeks, the seller ... the quilt, but I will replace the in progress pictures with the actual

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  things that will be keeping me busy. Mocha Moves Treasurer Managing ... excited to help implement changes that will benefit the greater student body. Since I didn't care at all about student government or anything of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020