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  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  Freshman will be taking their General Institute Requirements (GIR), Freshman ... and learn in an environment that better suits your style. The problem ... with large lectures, numerous recitations, and shared suffering (I joke

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  . I activate Reading Mode, enter an industrious fugue state, and emerge ... , and by how many cups of coffee I could consume until it was ... applications…and I had nothing but time to read them. Scarce hours of daylight

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  "]A[/annotation] few days ago, my Google Calendar returned to its pre-exile state, aka ... more intensive and test-prep-oriented. 12 - 1 I had a meeting with my ... presented my findings to her and worked with her to figure out the next steps

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way ... "I'll just get by this semester and be more organized next semester ... remaining due dates and to start studying right now." Now that I have my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  and its surrounding forest into a state reservation, complete with ... 30 days, which comes with various, non-specific benefits, and lot of street cred. Sometimes I flip through my contact list and wonder, “what

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  additional information about life at the Institute and it also helps the adcoms ... ) understood. That was my big :( moment of the week, but the trees and the ... in Taiwan that we only have two seasons in a year - "wet and hot" and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  mental state. It felt fragile and unstable, ready to just let go at any ... computer science class you take at MIT and it features weekly labs (they ... about them during the week."]009, 009, and more 009.[/annotation] Endless

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  universe, aced both classes, and decided to major in Course 18." This story ... thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring ... 18.02 (Multivariable Calculus) and 18.03 (Differential Equations

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  -school and was asking to be improved. [caption id="attachment_106486" align ... Blender for everyone because it's 100% free and can really help you create and visualize pretty much whatever you want in 3D regardless of what you

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  walk around taking 48 units. This doesn't cover everyone, though, and ... ? But So-and-so is taking five! And that kid down the hall is taking six ... all. Above, below, or exactly four per term is your own choice, and you

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman and sophomore year, will be moving back in next fall, and plan to keep ... oatmeal+banana+yogurt and peanut butter+toast+honey+banana for breakfast

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  state of human existence--and that's fine. I don't feel the same ... “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired ... and opportunities I've been given, and am very grateful for, by

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you ... writing good ones! Follow these top tips and you'll be writing formulaic ... trouble following these tips, I recommend reading CMU / Parallel Universe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first started college, 17 and still their innocent, perhaps helpless, teenaged ... catch it cheap enough, and any other bus when I was desperate and needed a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... finals in the past two days (6.0001, 20.110, and 5.13) and the looming ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  that quantum phenomena, as absurd as they seem, are real. And for once, I ... quantum particles and using those properties to engineer sensors that exceed ... quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  in my life right now, other than finals week and Celeste. Celeste is ... game bundles and started playing two weeks ago or something. It's a great game, and I'm glad that I played it, and now I'm going to shower praise

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020