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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  knowledge? i'm an sra for macgregor this summer, which is kind of like a gra ... call them tutors or something, which is a grad student that lives along with undergrads and is there to be like a first point of contact for help

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  me. It is, of course, that same burnout which I felt just as I began my ... unmotivating, or both, but it alone is not the source of the strain. The answer ... pain is your own or that of the people around you. None of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... going to take it "light" that instead verged on the cusp of burnout. To get some downtime to fully reflect on the halfway mark of my undergrad

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  two words of the language native to the country you'll be traveling to ... number of mistakes that were pointed out to me...) I've also been spending a lot of time on this site, cramming various scraps of information in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  different. In terms of classes, this upcoming semester is going to be my most ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... following: 6.005 - Elements of Software Construction This class is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  passions, the influx of amazing things to study helps better direct you as ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... welcome ceremony on Thursday night -- the "top 10-ish reasons to come to MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  on less than $20 a week. That is a true story. When I got back to ... during office hours or after class. So it is possible to get to know your ... refers to is the unit distribution for courses, which can be found in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  understand parts of it pretty well, or are beginning to. This is of course ... reason for the relative smallness of the major is probably something to do ... . That isn’t to say that there aren’t applications of every field which

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  of the previous term is used to estimate the number of students who ... start of term. If you go to a class for a week or two and decide it's not ... better to have a laptop or a desktop? Any advantages/disadvantages to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... answer by the end of this document, or an insight. The truth is that I don’t know, why sadness or burnout or all of those things seem to only get more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  with my sister while on a walk, which is to say that the tornado touched ... the size of the font on your blog for comfortable reading or better ... prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  protocol or to finish a test we're working on, I can think of no better way ... performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to watch. A little background. I'm part of the Langer Lab, which is one of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  worked on analyzing a lot of data from Mission 1 to better inform our ... , well, the opposite of that. Tokyo is home to [annotation note="Which is 3 ... (or JAXA, Japan’s version of NASA). Here is where the 2-meter

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of ... on the status of Hurricane Ike. Every update it seems to become more ... flight out of the city when I'm supposed to leave on Monday? The prudent

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... , presidential phone conversations to recordings of Cowboy Junkies concerts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  resemblence to our initial plot. Every guild camp is different, of course. Last ... that is too large to ignore or patch up through subtler means. My team ... , which is typical in Guild, but it was all stuff that we expected to happen

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my ... ... next weekend is going to be SUPER exciting! One of my best friends is ... handywork :) art is ... DANCE A few more of my friends love to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself ... Visit section of our site with suggestions on ways to [annotation note ... aid upward to help better support families during periods of hardship

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  stress on long days and avoids the temptation to skip meals, which is very ... $4133, which averages to just under $10 per meal. The Full 19 is a little ... shopping in actual grocery stores, which is part of my definition of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014