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  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  sleep. Oh, and we worked on problem sets (after which we ate more food ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as ... . And it may or may not be your dream school, but at the end of the day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work ... looking at colleges, I remember wondering if MIT graduates only went to work for technical companies. I later learned that's not the case at all (by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  to the gym to schedule classes. And then I have homework! And not just ... . Well, only the first two paragraphs are due tomorrow. I'll make it work ... WORK SAM HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WRITING THIS STUPID BLOG ENTRY?! If I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  most versatile words in the MIT vernacular, if not in the recorded ... raise this term because of my three years of hard work for campus minimum wage. Nice!" verb -- to work in a UROP "I'm UROPping until 5 today, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  opposed to normative, not as opposed to negative) way, we examine health ... material: Don't know yet =) 21H.927J The Economic History of Work and Family ... current material: We're about to begin working on group projects, and have

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  suicide rate. No, MIT students don't work all the time. No, MIT doesn ... was never more proud to work for MIT than I was at that moment. Because we do not make assumptions. Maybe it's because we believe so strongly

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  exponential when we work together. I think that answers all of the pic ... campus. I'll get to work on that next week, no problem. EC. Matt and I ... 'd gone to MIT I totally would have lived in EC. I'm not saying it's the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  during regular action, if you're deferred. Work on your other college ... ) baskets, so work hard to give yourself options. Relax. College admissions ... high school. Take some time to smell the roses. Not the same few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film ... Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Free screenings celebrate and showcase the works of ... ," "Family Ties," and "Laugh with us, not at us." The reception at 8 p

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  to Physics majors, it's not a strict major requirement unless you’re an ... units, corresponding to an expected 12 hours of work per week. By contrast ... lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  comprehend. 6.009? is not 6.00-fine. So! Let's talk about code. 9-11AM I worked ... 20 who detested everything computer science and could not imagine ... lectures? Not my favorite. I spent the time well, though, seeing as I had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  super helpful through the whole process, though, and it (somehow) worked out! Then I got slammed with work for all the rest of my classes ... not do so great on the math diagnostic for a variety of reasons. I got a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  of beauty I ever knew. It was not odd that I wanted to look like her ... world would not have agreed. I wasn’t thinking about all of this when my friend Chheankgea (aka CK) ‘17 approached me about working on a heels

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  intertwine with the awe MIT creates. My classes really make me work harder than ... and persistent without being overly work-consumed and alienating. I have ... week that you didn’t know two weeks ago. And even when you’re not mindful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  , when I was sitting at work... er... my room... and I noticed Matt's entry ... office (I actually didn't end up working with them, because I wanted to ... -long vacation where you don't actually do anything productive. Not only that, it

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  working out for scheduling reasons. Recently, especially since I'm not ... started the firehose turned on and I was slammed with work and I totally ... Ciudad de México for Dia de los Muertos was not a real tradition at the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational ... published academic research. One built a working nuclear reactor in his garage ... , thinks 18-year-olds ought to be doing. Not many sleep eight hours a night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  very first song. See, someone's got to tell the tale Whether or not it ... , high-energy songs in the whole musical. this juxtaposition does not seem ... [annotation note="a long story that i feel is not necessarily mine to tell

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  , i have never felt anything before,  but i am not feeling anything ... easy to justify happiness for being happy but not sorrow for being sad. i ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  Oh man - considering the fact that JKim has posted not one, not two, not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to start spending less time on p-sets and more time blogging... But not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007