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• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  myself for another year? So here I was, trying to get ready to learn again ... I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... out a ton of work so i can get my actual project closer to completion

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  . I get to aim at one simple thing, the bulls-eye, and get to ignore ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... 't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule. "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... all that I could -- and wanted -- to manage on an eventful month

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  ).... and I've decided to be ME (get the pun?)!! Why you might ask? Well... it ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and arguing about peanut butter are frivolous, if funny, activities. I'd like to dedicate this post to my experience so far with academic advising at MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  always great -- use the web to get inspiration for a project that you can ... Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico to talk about MIT with students, parents, and other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my ... unfortunately have absolutely nothing interesting to report about it. The most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  know that a chapter of Blue Mars awaits, and that you get to spend half ... MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  towards the train station, I managed to get a video: Also - KEIRA ... IN SALEM!! I didn't get to meet either of them though :( (4) Gratitude ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  expertise to be very helpful (though hopefully I'll get there someday!), but I ... , when you come to MIT, get a UROP yourself and experience the wonders of ... of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  that. Also, my little sister just got permission to get her first tattoo in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... . And I’ve worked to teach myself since then, by getting my [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  than an hour to get there from the fifth station. It was probably the ... weather started to get really, really bad. Difficult to stand up, let alone ... stopped to get some of the best hot chocolate I have ever had in my life

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... your essays fit word limits, it can be very helpful to get a second ... mission. I am lucky that the people around me basically trusted me to get

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  managed to get my hands on it once again. And, because my favorite thing to ... vests, or taking cash from people who wanted to get in. It was retail at ... entrance to a marvelously shitty pool), and I did get my fair share of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  people telling me not to get a job before hacklodge it was last fall, when ... , an applied crypto research group, so i was able to join 0xparc and get ... ’s similarly unfair how only 25 people get to take that class each year, how more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  -worker was nice enough to get us a discount at a nail salon and once there an ... conversation they would nod their heads (side to side, not up and down) and ... the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  delightful experience. I decided a good first step to get back into actually ... the right amount of torque to get the satellite in the right orientation ... wanted to get in somewhere before hearing back from MIT in December. This

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020