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• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  . V -- 2.007 was the other day and, although I didn't get to stay for ... in toy land. I still don't want to tell you what we're making, but I ... , readjusting all of my user settings, and trying to get everything back to normal

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  semester. Early in the school year, I kept getting emails about spending IAP ... experience in English. The bigger goal here then is to inspire an interest in ... much can change in just one week. It took just a minute or two for me to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts ... beginning this monster, I've decided to share happiness with the world, in the ... surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  leaving in the past. Honorable mentions included missing having access to ... in a tea shop with a friend. the low barrier of entry to try new things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... might be relevant in order to fill in the rest of the space. To fit everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... of things we’d like to see happen in “our” ELL: bigger groups, greater ... volunteer learned that he or she was to role-play as the Director of FEMA in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't had a rice cooker in forever. And oh man was it a great decision to get ... so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in ... new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... they do something you don't like, it's hard to get angry at them because

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  well as space in CAVS to meet, and we arrived early in order to prepare ... painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own ... to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  standards until you've learned to be satisfied with mediocrity. And so, in ... 't even my lowest grade of all time in that point--that honor fell to an AP ... paying attention to the fact that I was getting all the answers wrong on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ”s. As first semester finals came to a close in late December, I saw no ... , to get a jumpstart on the curriculum, to finally fix their less ... ; and then, I’d be late to my PE class because I’d grab a banana in the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something. (definition from How To Get Around MIT)   Which brings us to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  , and you get to decide what that lab works on. However, in order to do ... -Doctoral students that all want this position. So, in order to get this position you ... entered the field of biology in order to make or find something that can

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  , and D&D sword and throne room in another building. I got to stay in ... order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion ... to different stores for different foods to get the best deals, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... to eventually feel comfortable in this new growth in a way that I don ... making an effort to get off-campus more frequently, even if it's just to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a ... , medium format workhorse weighing in at about 8 pounds with its 180mm lens—to

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... corresponds to what its function in the circuit is. The battery is energetic

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  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 ... delightful experience. I decided a good first step to get back into actually

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020