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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , which you can think of as my “energy”, or “charge”, or “productive hours ... Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours ... , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... told me, Ana, you’re running in a race, but the finish line keeps moving ... is wonderful, and can make you feel like you’re on top of the world

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  being an over-achiever, and MIT becomes the first place you can’t get exactly what you want. October? I have no idea what happened in October ... , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  you’ve obsessed over and analyzed and tried to emulate in a thousand ... study habits, and scores that were considered “bad” in high school can ... ="although not in the contexts that we’re used to hearing it in."][/annotation] you

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  float in and out of your list of movies to watch, but you never quite get ... you would much rather write a paper than do a problem set, you’re not alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  can fall down my priorities list. In the spring semester, I want to ... , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke ... combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot ... living in a car required. Vanlife isn’t glamorous unless you spend ... exhausted. I lived on the shitty stale coffee you only find in gas stations

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  deprived butt that week. Those of you who choose to come here in the future ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
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  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you're just riffing off of someone else's idea. But I hope you all enjoy it as ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  was this surreal sense of joy in the air. If you ask any student on ... you to every individual that has helped in even the smallest of ways ... seniors, thank you for all you have done in the past four years to make MIT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  are you majoring in?  But there were other topics that we wouldn’t have ... much I can say before it gets drowned out in a pile of words. These are ... hometown in Alabama during the second week. I was staying in Georgia with my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university ... evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  thrown my way in isolation. nothing can make one be like that."] I can do ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  has changed because of–you got it–MIT. I downloaded my favorite distro of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... shots (see if you can spot the Brass Rat!): So to sum it up, because

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to pick your race or ethnicity, you're doing it wrong.” If anything, the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be ... thinking about academics at all -- but you could pick out trends, in how I ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021