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• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into ... . And then I get up every morning to start the cycle over again. And again

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time to get to my UROP at 10. Eight hours of sleep. SKILLZ, I TELL YOU ... sometimes I get on my computer to check my mail and somehow spend five hours

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do i have unsolicited tips for you

  

  to apply online, book an appointment, go in-person to get my identity ... ; Hold onto your 101 Things To Do Before You Graduate List, in case you ... stuff.']not available after your first year,[/annotation] so get it in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  our utilities get to us—in fact, I can say with certainty that I know ... water get to my bathroom faucet in New House? I have no idea where it ... the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see ... wrong, but hey, I was pretty stoked to be quoted in an article and have ... coming to an end and I was in denial about having to leave Alameda, I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... kind of passed out with A Prayer For Owen Meany open to page 89 in my lap

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to ... The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  important deadlines approach, everyone hops in to get the task done. Also ... " or "comparison" it can get tricky!  Finally, in order to test the ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , but first allow me to introduce myself. After growing up in Queens, NY ... mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... in my seat as I urge players to run faster, jump higher, and save the ... unconvincing win in the group stage and how disappointing it was to see that, but

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  campus to get to Walker Memorial where the entire auditorium will fill with ... upbeat music to get hyped up on my march over. Pray for me. Thanks. ... just finished gulping down a breakfast burrito. Back in high school, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  you...I should probably get back to work. My last calc midterm of the ... am sufficiently focused enough to get work done. Wish me luck with ... Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... East Campus devotes annually to bad ideas. Events in swing: grilling in ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In ... they're meant to be doing. There are certain mistakes in the approach to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... 've come compared to where I began and I revel in the progress and the work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  programming last semester which are known to both be consuming classes in their own right, and I was also taking solid-state chemistry in an effort to ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020