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  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  work harder than I ever could before and do great things with my life. I ... ? Because you're not like the others. You're not a pretender, you're the real ... surrender? I'm not sharing this song or this story with you tonight only

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I ... was. Plus, they had this cool beaver light. Our team got to work by

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  , anxiety looming over me and making it even harder to work. When I’m not ... working from home, not worrying about paying rent because my monthly salary ... head that tells me I have to work, that begs me to find the concentration

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... chairs and stable desks nobody gets annoyed if I talk while working with ... this in mind, let's dive into my definitely not comprehensive list of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ve been working on over the semester. But while the presentations are ... good old-fashioned hard work. While a product is a very tangible thing ... work.  It's one of my favorite things about product design

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... 's possible and common to be so deep in piles of work that you will NOT be able ... likely learn your limits, if you haven’t already. Pun not intended, but I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  isn’t for me. I’m not entirely excluding the possibility. […] But Java ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... answer is this blog post. Here's six projects I worked on some time during

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  the methods that worked or did not work in his own past international ... piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... post. This time, I have a story. The story is not about me (well, not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  kind works best for me. 9 am classes? Maybe not (see point 2 above). But ... lot about what I learned this semester and what I'd like to work on for ... more prior experience), is not about exactingly following a recipe and

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

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  life, and don't feel like you're failing if it's not. Keep working ... you'll try something new and realize you'd rather not do it again (e ... you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  intimidating - not because it was less complicated, but because it didn’t seem ... the screen and got back to work. -- TWO WEEKS AGO -- I had received an ... ” categories. Steady-state work is recurring and regular: things like lectures

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... ’t more popular (maybe because not enough people have seen Avenue Q.) 2 ... , physics (2004).” These Nobel laureates do not sit perched in ivory towers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  to get work done doesn’t reflect whether or not things are okay in my ... , but then I’ll have a lot of work and not have time to do the creative ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  , I’m not coming back until I’m home for good. That means I end up ... and working for a long time. Small Headphones - These are for walking ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  sorting, editing, and selecting photos. Final takeaway: do not work on a ... turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with ... switch to Day 5 immediately. I care about the academic work I’ve done at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  for feeding yourself, setting your own curfew (or not), and choosing for ... the next four (or three or five) years, wherever here is. That’s not ... or smarter than you, and just as willing to work hard. In high school

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  mean, I'm not sure I'm placing enough value on independent work or that I ... ][2][3][4][5] for quick access.) Note that these are not stories in the mythical ... becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades. There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  about 5 hours for work, or about 1 pset worth of time. Not much for a 4 ... sometimes 11:21 or 11:22 work just as well. When I rise at 11:22, I don’t get ... . Working too much is easier than working too little. Takes the pressure off

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006