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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  more difficult to actually find the time to learn how to integrate sec^3 ... would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out ... studying and go to sleep. Getting all your work done is for sure a priority

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and ... motivated my desire to be productive faded within a matter of days. i thought ... and do the things i never got a chance to do before or at MIT, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  find a flight tomorrow, take the hotel voucher, and then cry myself to ... that you can fill out. im probably going to find somewhere to take a nap ... change, a real gate change, and at least two more hours to go before i get

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We ... band, I'd say at least four had pi memorized to this many digits, and a ... , here the top five reasons to have a beard. 1. Warmth 2. Less shaving 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  find funding to go and start partnerships in Ghana, finally securing a ... of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show ... mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  Frisbee". Is it art? A joke? Is it even funny? Hard to tell. But now we ... tried to make a sort of 3d "flower" of acrylic panel petals, but this was a disaster since they were fairly heavy and I didn't know how to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I ... psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem ... up. Then I remember I have a lot of idiots to prove wrong” (Stanley

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early ... many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have ... to take on 15+ hours of lecture a week (although probably not attending

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in an apartment, only to find that they're all related at the end to a ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  dark and sunless. But, I still managed to find time to relax in the ... look forward to. This September, I’ll be beginning a Masters of Science ... On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  semester with only a few weeks left to find something to do before the summer ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  on the quiz -- for reference, I got a 0 on last quiz. I began to ... this to a student. Perhaps they should change that. It is now Friday ... in it other than venting. So I wanted to make a blogpost to counteract

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  Responses to Comments: A: Hey Laura,stupid question : I just wanted ... mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I ... ? So, we're going to backtrack to a little over a week ago. If you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  shipping expense. Just bring enough stuff for a few days to hold you over ... finished that essay at 3AM. Some people find a wall-mounted whiteboard to be ... want a small fridge in your room. Hold off on getting this until you find

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school ... of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a ... having a life will apply wherever you go to school next year - but you ... find a good new release (or an old album by a band I'd never heard of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... be a great idea to swap jackets. While the black jacket with blue ... , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant ... city. I'll try to find out what else I can tell you about my job; if I ... Resolution (FAIR) Act would establish a $140 billion trust fund to compensate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  , was secretly in a plot to kill me and take over the ship! (Or at least ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005