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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  this winter, as Boston has certainly received its fair share of snow. (As ... snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... reason I joined twitter. I was resistant and fairly hostile for a while

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  Castle MISTI Cultural Fair and Fare (Croissants & Espresso, Samosas ... there is the Career Fair itself. A ton of companies (~250 -- see the ... entry, when I google "careers office" the MIT Careers Office is the third

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  to Mari to "post" to the old, old admissions site This was while ... Institute-wide MIT blogs site and thought we were pretty pro. Matt and I ... needed to customize its own site to unleash the magic and bring blogging to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hosts the fall career fair. This is a pretty big deal at MIT, where all ... morning, I printed out ten or so resumes to bring to the fair with me. Overall, the fair was a pretty overwhelming experience. I got a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  seems fairly obvious, and in most ways in my usual life it was, but I had ...   UNESCO world heritage site – when a heavy downpour accosted us that left ... under it. Grateful to have a way to escape the pouring rain, I made as if

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  represents?" And in an instant, my excitement rapidly burned away, leaving ... on and poured myself into, was simply not enough. Not worth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  , eliminating the "test site" for recalibrating the Bruno. Nevertheless, the piano ... is the final day MIT students can "drop" a class. MIT is fairly ... entire community. Use this site to learn about everything environmental at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  weekend I'll return to the Bay for the annual Maker Faire Bay Area to give a ... summary/slides of my presentation over on the Civic site. Then, if all goes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  many and answers are few. Things are changing at a rapid pace and I don ... ) Survived yet another career fair with zero job offers. 28) Went apple

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  and over at career fairs. But it can also come about more organically ... basic tools I've learned at MIT - SolidWorks, machining, and rapid

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  , and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... social competency got stuck fairly easily. I was trying to get through my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  ..." - thanks, Professor! :) To be fair, he wasn't kidding; the midterms were ... and repping MIT with my hoodie: On the Kali River Rapids, in Disney

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  interesting way of sidestepping the current issues. Google Believes Everyone Should Have Access to Cat Videos As a fairly strong proponent of the ... information to those who can benefit from it. Google Glass? How About Intera

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... it was something to the effect of “You should have used a Google Form instead of a Google Spreadsheet.” This was immediately deleted by someone

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... scores from the SAT II administrations in the fall. The final college fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... booths and acclimatize myself to the craziness. Career fair is always an ... with so many different motivations are attracted to Career Fair, it gets

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  Engineering Fair from my computer and visiting my family in Chicago and in ... the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair analyzing lots and lots of surveys from previous science fairs and from classes given to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  have been invested into an index fund three years ago, or maybe I could

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  while the other was working on it (think of wikis or google docs ... sites updated, too. So, we got access to more sites and started sorting ... on other sites at all because I didn’t want to tell my supervisor how

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011