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  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT ... and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... .”   2. HUBRIS (aka, Biting Off More Than You Can Chew). Sometimes I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  -students. Oops. Sorry! I took some screenshots for your benefit, just so you can get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... of interesting things you can work on. I have a pretty generous

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  't even feel like work. I've also been working on my other two jobs, a web ... This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... – but I suppose it’s passable for a just a few days. Thank God there was ... Saturday, but I had to rest on account of (a) the fact I was feeling a bit

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me ... I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of the following: 1. Analyzing data and writing as much as I can on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a fearful though pumped pre-frosh. I could not even fantasize the reality of college life. Would my sister Skype with me often? How could I stick all my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  , I mean.']special significance[/annotation] as the day I began my life and work at MIT, ten years ago today. I've been thinking about what I ... enormous, too [annotation note='I remember, shortly after I got my job I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  I look at the clock - it's 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just happened? No pset, no exam, no looming deadline. I spent the past 14 hours working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant life update to catch you all up to speed.   Hair   If I ... year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  Today, winter left Boston. I woke up and found that the snow had ... was warm. I walked around without a hat or gloves and didn't feel the ... well-organized spreadsheet. I'm always looking for ways I can improve

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  astrophysics. Coming from an EECS background, I had to Google some of the astro ... share this so I guess I'll stick it in here—Joey Googled ARIEL because ... This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The ... with the decision-making process. In High School, I did a lot with FIRST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT had an annual Integration Bee, I got excited. I checked my calendar. The Bee was between the first and second semester. I might have trouble

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  . I also met with George, a sophomore with whom I'll be working on a Web ... I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for ... weeks all term, so I thought I'd tell you about it. Sometime early Sunday

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... annual event run by the MIT UA Committee on Sustainability.   I ... . One of the most fun and surprisingly useful materials I used were bread

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can ... Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab ... current InternshipPlus experience as a biochem data analyst. As I mentioned

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  study. Faculty advisor is Dr. Cynthia Breazeal (http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab) and graduate student you'll be working with is Cory Kidd (http://web

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005