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  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  MERRIMACK VALLEY OF NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. SNOW... WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES ... EVENING TO 5 PM EST MONDAY... TODAYS SNOW AND FLURRIES IN SOUTHERN NEW ... FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH 5 TO 10 INCHES IN THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... miserable here. If it's not for you, it doesn't make you any less of a person ... much promise you that. Those who aren't offered admission won't be upset

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . 18-wheeler truck At MIT, most classes count for 12 units of academic ... in real life too – just look at the average number of hours per week in ... multiple of 3, and this holds true for pretty much every class at MIT. But in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  of Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie. I got back to my room ... near Boston Common at about 11:45. I lost the group on the way out of the ... at least. But woe is this Texan on the first day of snow...which could

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  throw at them. This is why finals at MIT are a whole new kind of special ... completely done with their year at MIT, there are still hundreds of students ... the student feeling comfortable about a lot of different things at the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  assigned to the Tuesday/Thursday 2-5 section of junior lab. I showed up at 4 ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me ... Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... technical field. A badge of honor at the Institute, e.g., "Nerd Pride". (2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  . Anyway, I had an awesome time at the party, which was actually kind of ... a link to the full subject listing offered at this year's Splash!, but ... of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings above), and the walls are covered with an eclectic mishmash of posters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  had to have plans to do something, to explore some new part of the city ... ,[/annotation]and at the end of the twelve weeks I could go home and nobody would be any ... the fear of trying new things or of mild disappointment; you have to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  .5 years' worth of work at a "normal" courseload. But there's a slight catch ... " courseloads is 384 units. So, that's what sort of picture you're looking at ... same number of units as 3 ordinary classes) 8.ThU (Thesis) Either 8.07 (E

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... Scale? It's one of my favorite career fair shirts, although I'm still mad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the Weather Channel's new ratings-driven non-scientific naming system for winter ... 's that time of year that meteorologists call winter, characterized by snow

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... things actually are. Because chances are, you're looking at them under the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and looking back makes me feel like i'm in another universe right now. i mean

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of ... ! Prospective MIT students and blog readers of the world, your mission (if you ... until Saturday, October 31, at noon. I will actually wear whatever costume

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  new room on my hall next week, and I'll try to take some pictures so you can see a bit of the East Campus interior. I'll also be starting some full-time, focused project work at Amtrak, so that should keep me fairly

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... gawking at the height of the buildings. It feels strange to be in the center ... feel very bad for this version of myself, who had somehow at such a young

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023