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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  -sets expanded to fill the time I gave them: all the time I had. As a result, when ... hadn’t blogged, shown up to lab, or spent much time with friends. I felt ... about optimization. You have limited time and energy; the biggest

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  . You've heard a gajillion times that MIT students are time management ... , which means that "springtime" is "thesis time". I asked her what else she ... -playing robots would take up any time at all. It takes a special sort of person to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  lose, end up dancing, and having a good time. Funny how these things work ... pictures, and then it was FOOD TIME! The food this year was delicious, better ... stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face ... forget to blog that last one? My bad, guys), but I don't think this time that will suffice. So I'm trying something new this time, a new reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  . So I understand if you feel like the time from now to when you graduate ... I received the NBM two years ago, I spent just about all my time with ... time thinking about advising. Anthony tried to steer me away from this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  different. It seems almost hard to imagine that this time last week, I was ... . On my long flight back from Boston back to Taipei, I spent some time ... vocabulary. 13. Discovery is the first time I fired a gun in the Pistol PE

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  time exploring other college campuses (though, you're not allowed to have a better time than you did at MIT =p) in making an informed decision ... like you guys are having a good time?" MIT Blogs are real. We don't try

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  the rest of your time to work on the project. Unfortunately, because my entire team was really busy most of the time, we didn't start working on ... to finish on time below $9/lb? It took a lot of work. I pulled 3 all

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  had heard of (remember, the Internet was in its infancy at the time ... very little time in big cities like Baltimore. So I begged local organizations for some scholarship help and off I went. For the first time, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  largest group I've ever traveled with. it was an incredible time, and even ... time, and a refreshing change from the clubs I'm used to, which are lame ... , but I had a great time hanging out with a bunch of friends from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  ’s been a long time since I’ve so thoroughly bungled a test. There are many ... took various courses or optimizing time commitments more effectively ... , I’m better served by putting my extra time into research. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  -at-all-definite list of things that I want to explore during my time at MIT, arranged ... if I had infinite time I would totally also learn [annotation note ... writing class I took last fall. For the first time, I really enjoyed the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  have bangers playing at all times, and there's so much space to dance. the only times i actually enjoyed frats were when around 30 other people ... danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  "]another language.[/annotation] I felt ashamed every time I didn't know something ... smart kid from the smart school. At lunch time, I would eat a cold ... time for that. They all seemed so [annotation note="I was not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . Time soon came for the 2nd 2.004 test. It was three weeks away, the two weeks after CPW (a time of partying and non-studying), and a week after my ... stuff. I had portioned out just enough time after CPW to study for my 2

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  things that are golden, part 0 (pen and highlighter markers, 2020) things that are golden, part 1 (digital, 2021) things that are golden, part 2 (blockprinted ink, 2023): [caption id="attachment_90795" align

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  cutoffs, but as one of many parts of a contextual, holistic review. I know ... our part, beyond just talking about this, we have taken some concrete ... over time, if it is clear that the admissions decisions that colleges and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed ... time – how complicated can it get? It gets quite complicated indeed First ... ) times 4 relative rotation angles for 24 total unique orientations. So I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... different tutoring services. So all of the free time I had from not taking a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  asked more or less the same thing during non-pandemic times. The first two ... be especially true and helpful for current times, given all the ... had chosen other classes —  or the same classes, at other times —  one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021