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  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  't matter if he doesn't matter to everyone because what's important is that he ... I have so many things and so little space, but I'll try my best to ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am ... Ring Comm Study Break to help plan, and we were assigned 8 – we repeat E

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  were...... Finals. On the other hand I was about to be able to go home and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  change our stories.   So, all of this to say, I feel it's important ... For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  major projects in order to split up important work and keep the product ... AR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... managers can create to distribute to workers on the shop floor. I’m an intern

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  is to pay to sit for four hours on a bus (more on that to come). I ... , actually. I forget. They don't even list the open hours online; you have to ... 't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  visit. I have so much to be grateful for, but more importantly, I needed ... TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds ... ; Each year, fall semester seems to pass by much quicker. Maybe coming off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  experiences to straight-up spilling tea for an hour. it's great.   as i ... that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a ... would stare longingly out the window. Then when MIT went back to class on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... get roughly 5 hours to come up with a design pitch of a solution to one ... -person conference on Wednesday. Basically, we had about 5 hours to solve

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  , and so are professors who are happy and excited to do an extra hour of ... Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan, relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... . Took weekend trips to NYC, Montreal. Saw my first Fourth of July

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  , allowed me to cruise through 24 lectures in just 13 short hours, spread ... myself to concentrate for hours on end. I would not recommend trying this ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . They want you to apply your knowledge to problems that take hours and ... afternoons in office hours! If you'd like to see our class messaging system at ... barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  lot? That disappointment took us back to the 24-hour grocery store on ... . I found a dress I loved about half an hour before our deadline to ... It's 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  hours (I arrived at 7, but was supposed to arrive at 1) because we had a ... So I technically wasn’t supposed to blog – but my fellow prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  . Don’t go to office hours; you don’t want the TAs to put a name to a face ... How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... understanding the concept on the first try. Don’t ask the person sitting next to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  , just went away. I spent 5 hours running diagnostics and talking to tech ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually ... professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  his talk was that it is important to have an accurate definition of what ... biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this guest lecture actually be about? Brief sidebar here to mention that it is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  especially house dinners, are usually considered to be important community time ... to provide her own answer). Sara Campbell asked "It's cool that MIT has so many food opportunities, but do you feel that it causes people to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005