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  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  out/do some work with friends. Midnight - 2am Work closing shift at ... some work done. Desk is such a great job--basically getting paid to do ... physics (grading = another great way to make money). It's best to work in

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  "]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... friends. That's not what this blog is about, though we will certainly write ... and go do work in my room, and someone might come in and join me. In the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  given advice can be digested by the recipient regardless of whether or not they ultimately take it. I rarely take advice. That's why I'm not ... 'll die on that hill if I'm not already dead from one of the trials

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  House kitchen, to work on my 18.03 (Differential Equations) problem set. 4 ... . Get up, turn it off, pull out laptop, and work on reports for the Public ... due to the sleep deprivation. Not only did I have a powerful urge to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  complain about how hard they're working, and 2) MIT students really like ... .) Unless you are a total academic rockstar and/or you do not need sleep, you ... do your work. When you have nothing else to do, you might be more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  reason it's not quite done yet—I'm hoping to spend more time working on the ... work together in order to accomplish their goals in the woods ... unique restrictions. The first project involved working with a system

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  math homework, I hate to break it to you (me), but IT’S NOT WORKING ... in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical ... ’re expected to have a working race car, design document lab report, and online

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... busy, because it's always right around midterms. Those not-quite-fun pset ... I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  the plague. Well, maybe not the plague, as plague implies that many many ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... spend hours working on 8.02, 2.001, and 18.03. But, as any MIT student

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  ) other schools do not have the time and resources to make such a class ... opportunity to work through the entire design process and end up with a nice ... ): Seriously, it was the happiest day of the semester. My robot finally worked

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive ... seconds late, which is a mild tragedy. The professor is not here, but two ... professor is still not here. I pull out my laptop and start preparing notes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep ... free time and loneliness. While I generally try not to literally do ... get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  Security Administration, Stata Center, et cetera. This is not true of most ... note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game ... though they [annotation note="cj: well, not really, it’s actually quite

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... grade for calculus ever so slightly. “C” became the new “B” -- it’s not great...but it's good that I tried really hard. This part was not a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not having any work - normally if this was any other weekend during term, we ... impending final on Thursday. I had not done anything fun since Saturday

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  , in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have ... . October was a month of fun - work, yes, but also fun. iHouse had a ... even if you do not have residential membership. As a social member, you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  blog entry like that. I should work on it. Anyway, I would like to ... . Thursday morning: Spend the morning with my 20.380 group working on our ... And Not Have It Suck" as it is related to microbes. We spend a semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  . Not enough work hours, not enough studying, not enough communication. No ... ??? And NOT ENOUGH SPACE??? IT'S OVERWHELMING!!! Unfortunately, I don ... and not enough time??? TOO MANY TIME COMMITMENTS AND NOT ENOUGH TIME

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  household chores and limiting the color scheme of your work clothes well before I had such a thing as work clothes, while I was still on the ... , melted away a little--not entirely, but permanently. I kept these books

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  older, I still loved math, and so did my dad. He works in construction ... work and give me actual problems he faced that day to test my geometry ... love for math kind of changed. Not into hatred exactly, but maybe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006