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  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  equilibrium, there is a limit to how much I can handle and still be happy ... turning out to be really hectic. I’ve felt pretty overwhelmed lately. I’ve had several weeks where I have deadline after deadline and it’s hard to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... ashamed Just one test sets my head inflamed Silent music starts to play One ... down I feel like I'm gonna drown To GPA yet to come Still out there yet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  refreshing to just sit back and see what everyone brought to class, and how ... . For the past four months, I've been working with the MIT Design Lab to propose improvements to and new ideas for the metropolitan Paris subway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  people how to make to sense of it. But that knowledge has to be published ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... intended, according to its authors, to curb copyright infringement. It is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  , thoughtful, busy, creative. i would find a community while learning how to ... felt a flood of relief. this was how i was supposed to feel. i had ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  to estimate how many students will want be on campus next semester ... wasn't a guess of how many students would want to return – but I thought ... strategize about. It was hard to think about how the players might estimate the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  poetry in Spanish, and learning how to code intelligent systems. It has ... to dedicate. But simultaneously I think how much effort you put in ... papers due, that hour number increases to maybe 5-7 hours a week. How

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  how to answer this one. I'm thankful ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill ... helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me ... interesting to watch while taking STS.064J, and analyzing it for how he used ... assignment. I was trying to capture the sunset on film. We also explore

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of my crash and how that might have affected the fact that I escaped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write ... tortuous sense of "best" and "imaginable." To show what I mean by example

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really ... , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... since then. Holla to the MA, NY, CT, NH, MD, RI, NJ, CA, MI, IL, IN, MO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... . Massachusetts Avenue, so often clogged with cars, was transformed. It belonged to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals ... to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  future success and happiness. How you embrace and dedicate yourself to ... the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... prepared for the haters, but I let it go. No matter how good and honest one

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  . So anyway, read on to find out how we planned and executed the greatest ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... you respond to questions like “Did you think my mixtape was fire” with ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015