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• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... 's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... call and the next day the MyMIT page was updated with my new interviewer

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  drawn on all the pages in any of them. 2020 was no exception ... overestimated my fitness level; it would take me at least twice as long as the ... planned on writing at least 12 blogs in 2020. Though I technically published

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  robot at the top of this page: Note the extensive use of standoffs and ... receiver on it.  It's not pretty, but it drives. At the end of lab, my ... seemed impossible for me at the beginning of the semester, but thanks to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  . Typically reports, either internal or external. Documentation is important. At a ... knew I liked robotics and what that meant academically, but even at that ... , for example). Robots don’t have that understanding, and those at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  ’ve been here for two years. At real college, not imaginary internet college ... can change. At home, the closest I came to checking the weather was ... see, I was incredibly weather-spoiled at home. So far, though, the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  'd present at the end of May in a big Open House that anyone could attend ... classes I had taken at MIT, gave me a lot of prior experience. So, even ... and worked at a local pool. i was sad about not having a cool internship

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours every week in my lab, looking at worms, running gels and blots, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  interned at Facebook which was also the same summer Pokémon Go came out. And ... : the google sticker with the lanterns: I got this from my mentor at Google when I interned there for a second summer. I liked how it didn

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  especially in school you don't have real feedback loops on your learning, or at ... physics at some point, even if I'm not a physics major. But I felt like ... something, and I've gotten better at conveying ideas in a pretty

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  's lives equally." (I internally cringed at the last sentence, because when ... ticketing system was a mess: Olivia wasn't performing at a large arena, but ... tickets at face value, but then she fell sick several days beforehand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of ... that when my friend looks at my life they conclude that i can do anything, yet when i look at my life i genuinely feel like i’m able to do nothing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  they no longer display that data on the covid dashboard. (publicly, at ... now. i go to bed at like, 3 or 4 and wake up at 12, which is still a ... sitting at my desk staring into space and experiencing Thoughts™. the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my ... talking about the general excitement of being back at school. It was so nice ... at recruitment didn't even bother giving us a chance, just flat out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  looking at the stars -- small and yet enormous, alone and yet so comfortably ... west campus, at least!) But honestly, getting a tiny bit away from campus ... management, and I'd expected that I would be pretty bored by the books at Dewey

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the ... my Independence day plans at 7:30 pm on July 3rd. Someone once told me ... ‚Üí people's hands ‚Üí hot dog. At 7:00 pm: Mattress inflated- check

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our ... standardized. All the dorms have different internal methods of rooming and ... , spackle, and paint. At this point we only have drywall. 2) Our TV is

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  around. so both groups were in the lounge at the same time, a group of ... like a well-defined ending to work. it's his second summer as an intern

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Campus meant being able to glance at the line outside my window and line up ... cotton swab. It's the fourth time that I'm doing this, and at this point ... between three set meals any more. Now, we could point at different things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  Huling El Bimbo for an International Mother Language Day event. I went to ... with other things, or personal projects. I feel that at this rate, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  International Space Station.  They were originally inspired by Star Wars and ... engaged.  Thus, bottle rockets! In July, I started mentoring at my school

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011