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  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... . _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Optimal Procrastination Technique:  How to trick yourself into ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this ... about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have talked about extensively on the blogs. Burton-Conner is known for being ... , I committed to BC after I watched the 2019 i3 video since I figured

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of my imagination. My friends and I sometimes imagined what the experience of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
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  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike ... evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Wait, have you heard? I mean, it's only been published all over the MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news, and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a broad set of characteristics that set me aside from the other students. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the late 1800s Galton described aphantasia, the inability to create mental images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  the couch is Reva ‘18, who fell asleep on her laptop keyboard while attempting an 8.01 pset. The room feels like a postwar battlefield, with drowsy casualties strewn across the furniture. This week is my second-busiest of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1 in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest ... Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  bad – "GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE," The Narcissist Cookbook I know I usually ... took a bad hit at the start of January. The anxiety that made 2021 a hellish year for me got buried under the structure and responsibilities of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  EC Gothic, authored by East Campus, the residents and the mailing list ... decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you’ll find a place where the ephemeral is more real than the truth. That place

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner 2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  almost four years ago, and interestingly enough, I am the last guy that still seems to be around from the batch that got selected with me on that ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  thinking about blogging a guide to something complicated, like the HASS system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my horror, that the HASS-D lottery ended yesterday. Also, that HASS-D's aren

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  many stubs and snippets over the past few months, but I haven’t been able to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... this year, I’m writing this blog, which includes... First, the things I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025