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• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  landed in Louisiana, I was ready to not think about work for a week ... of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... with my friends. Unlike many MIT students, we chose not to go to Puerto

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on ... working for ten days straight. This did not mean that I was completely ... work on it. I am functioning, but I am not thriving, and, since I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  in quite a pickle. Where did Mills go wrong? By working harder not ... to use that fear to find ways of working smarter, not harder. Where ... . However, when he finds others against whom he does not measure as highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  work and still get to work close to (but not too closely) every day ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less work on psets, a lot more talking with people, and probably the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  the truth? I was up at 7 today to work on a prelab and then went to a 9 ... at 1 where I worked until 5:15 and went back to my dorm but on the way ... boiled peanuts) and immediately started working on this king cake for Mardi

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  " Another intern told me one day during work.  I've never been called a yankee ... poker?" and "did MIT students really create a working hoverboard?" Other ... finals week to working a 7am-4pm engineering internship, spending hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  with some exciting stories! As you may or may not recall, I mentioned ... past couple weeks, I've been working with some wonderful people on Team ... toy. The sketch model on the left was our works-like model which tested

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I ... right now. I haven’t had too much work yet (knock on wood), but am ... working on four different projects, meant to simulate working in the real

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  tired after I get home from work and the gym to actually chop things up ... fellowships.  I took the GRE a few weeks ago, which though not necesarily ... working on my personal statement for a few weeks now and am now on draft 4

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... nor flight but freeze. because on the good days, the meds work. the meds work, the weather's good, and my executive control is sharp enough to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I ... won’t work, you’d never get anything done.  # As it turns out, though ... joke, that in all of MIT this one person alone seemed happy, so I did not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful ... - thursday - today's going to be working on the 6.004 lab all day. i'll have to ... 't have enough hours in the day - not enough energy - not enough days in the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  'm practically living the Bruno Mars life right now, only I'm working toward a college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... was because I worked a combined 15 hours each weekend. The only

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  not a nugget!" Look, I understand that you're not a nugget, but have ... rocket hit. I stared, not quite believing what had just happened. I turned ... caught up in my work I missed (just some lab stuff and a PSET to do) and I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  more abstract works, like the Francesco Clemente at right. Unfortunately ... beginning next week. Any winnings not collected by the end of the week are ... -for-all handover of moderately expensive framed artworks, there's not much reason for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  to all the course content but you do not need to do any work for the ... book Inciting Joy and it was so incredible. not just the work, but his ... still feel unfinished and open, not because I have actual work for them

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... time to cook more than once a week anymore. On weekdays, I'm working constantly. I wake up at 9 am and work until around 11 pm, and then I go to bed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  taught me about how to learn and how to work. thanks for your passion ... that have worked hard to care for each other, doing the work of shaping ... your work conformed with your principles and your interests. i see and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at ... they're up to these days! It's not surprising that MIT alumni have found

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... ://igem.org/About ) More specifically, I work on the tissue culture (TC)/ transfection part

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012