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• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  The thing about short weeks at MIT is that they're not really all ... work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... the right times. right now i store pointers and not data--need to move

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  'll have yourself a full computer! How do sticking-together rocks work? Not ... usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we ... do other rocks not stick together? Why do so few people know how they

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  college essay is a lot of work, but the work should not be bad; the reason ... process was Not Fun. I can certainly agree with that when looking at the volume of work most high school seniors get themselves into -- e.g. the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  more bearable by finding people to work with and understanding what organizational method works for you. Oh, and did I mention it's also about having ... occurs when working at 3am on this or that assignment. And while people

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  get you down. Most importantly, revel in your work, and not your prize. MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... school adventures. MIT is not the goal. It never was. No one can see the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So ... work this summer, my co-worker Nick insisted upon calling me 'Kim' (it didn't simplify matters that another Kim works there). "I'm with another

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  and working hard all the time 🥲 Although this school does not say you ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6.004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For ... working on the lab at nearby computers, so we could help each other. Eight

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  , I do not work for Amazon… ... desk worker. Not only because future employers love students who have had dorm desk experience (Steve Jobs worked Desk), but also because it’s so

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it ... delete an item in your Public that you do not want there anymore and you ... working on fixing this, anonymous person who probably got assigned to Senior

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  . Without classes this month to focus on, I started working under some teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last writing (with more words), but my work builds upon some of my high school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  work while juggling the crazy new power/responsibility that is FREEDOM ... telling me to schedule a makeup exam. But it’s more like this is not exactly ... should try out lots of other activities during first semester, and what not

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  years, thinking about not only the first time, but when i felt like a ... a lyft, or the caltrain, i find myself sleeping. it's not that i ... myself i'm not tired all the time. offices. having a desk to myself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  't really work together on them. Maybe it's beacuse examples papers not graded ... forced ourselves to buckle down and do the work... When I finally walked ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  week and not have a single ounce of work-life balance, because that ... to solve whatever I'm working on at my job, not the crushing pressure ... 've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  extremely wealthy? i wouldn’t mind, but it’s not a goal that motivates me day ... ) inconsequential problems to not be excited by intelligence alone. extremely ... good possible; that’s why i’m not an effective altruist of course there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  afternoon; I sat there at my desk, fuming, not really doing any work as my ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working ... AutoCad, a skill all engineers should have, and one which is not taught ... arrived, as initial communication was rather difficult. Not many of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  relationships. And a sense that I have not worked on anything deeply fulfilling in ... , whether it’s having fun or talking to people or getting work done.  I’m not ... eventually my advisor sits me down and says, “Amber, you have not completed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022