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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  companies[/annotation] while I was still interning at PlayStation this summer ... people updating their job statuses to "Incoming Intern at [insert company ... interning at companies over the summer, and won't have to go through this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but sometimes 11:21 or 11:22 work just as well. When I rise at 11:22, I don’t get ... rumination and pages of beginnings. My first time, this happened under a full

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  don’t have to play musical laptops at airport security. (If your computer does disappear at airport security or die, there are at least 20 ... and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer ... around here, and for the hard stuff, they're really good at it. The more ... 't click further than the Notable Alumni page to see a good number of people

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  talked about this proposal, and this need, at the next blogger meeting, and ... identities at MIT, where they felt welcome, none have been "out" on the blogs ... few weeks ago, Yuliya hosted a guest post about all the gay events at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at ... at the expense of your health and wellbeing.”  I have yet to completely internalize their words, but writing/illustrating this blog are my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as ... copy of the international edition of Newsweek, which had a headline

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at least I could say to myself, internally: "they just don't like you because ... worked. I was reasonably good at everything I did, and great at a few

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

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Cambridge campus’ construction. At the turn of the century, a still-young-but-growing MIT looked at its student life and found it lacking. Here, the greatest ... longer seem as foreign as it did at the time. The gym was completed shortly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  . Then, I go home, sit at my desk, and handwrite four to six pages. Every ... evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The ... significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  all three. Long story short, as is always the case at MIT, your ... last week. I still had a four- to six-page research paper for 4 ... at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular 'Subtle Asian Traits' page that has been making its way around the Facebook. For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... ! internally! about! how! quickly! the! year! flew! by!) Anyway...consider this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  at MIT appeals to you and why?), two essay prompts to choose from ('Tell us about an experience which, at the time, really felt like "the end ... must have checked the clock at least fifty times in every class. It wasn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister ... all overheated in the UV that is surely at least 13, then jump in all over again.  One thing is always certain after spending an afternoon at

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims ... ) Les Cline and Larry Horowitz picked me up at my hotel in mid-town at 7

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... away at it every night. I'd write essays in marathon non-stop sessions starting with my thesis and not pausing until I'd filled 8 pages with my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  moments at MIT when I’ve felt really awesome and really, really badass (not ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7.02, my professor was watching and she said, “Wow, you’re really good at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  as an intern. 1:42pm walk back to campus 2:00pm arrive at Rinaldi ... wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... the door, speed walking 9:38am miss the bus at 77 Mass Ave. 9:40am catch

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014