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• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  do you think about x global issue" or "what is your goal here at MIT ... idea of at least what direction you're going, but, if you have one, don ... comes first Yeah, academics are important at MIT, but quality friendships

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate has a SEPARATE security line at Logan airport (beware, those of you who ... AGAIN. At this point, I was wearing my MIT 2014 track jacket instead. TSA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  myself, or (at the minimum) seeming like a creep watching someone else ... Mojgani, the writer I met at Boston University last month after a ... bed at the same time and sing lullabies in harmony. Not nearly as many

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant ... decided to pursue a position at a fashion startup that boasted a fresh

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  just don’t give a shit.” - Hardi Meybaum, GrabCAD CEO/founder I work at ... think I could do better at with work?” Hardi: “Gabe, I think you’re doing ... . Hardi had never cussed at me, much less refused to answer one of my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  ourselves. We don't look at each other competitively- I've honestly never felt ... the biomedical field at some point (yay biomedical robots), I decided ... /recitation and at least another 8 doing all the readings, notes, and the psets. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  decision they made during their time here at MIT. Pledging MIT Sigma Chi ... life at MIT. You can avoid it, embrace it, or cohabitate with it. Coming ... -long bonds at MIT. My freshman year, the process of Recruitment allowed me to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... any data, but instead itself cites (at 84) “No Distinctions except Those ... legacy-granting MIT.” (emphasis mine) Here they cite (at 371) the “MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  of the Sport Death shirt that at this point it's probably cheaper to ... , Egypt, before starting at MIT. This summer, I’m interning at RIA Novosti ... : the oldest dormitory at MIT (1918) and one of the smallest (~150

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  -- but also shows off and helps fund student projects. a day at the fair I ... delicious chili-cinnamon hot chocolate. At one booth down the first row, a ... leave it at that. Its most heavily marketed capability is the ability to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute ... was willing to shell out for it. After all, when you look at that Brass ... of my time at MIT. Some of the cooler features that I really enjoy

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... charming chocolatier from France. Thanks to my three French classes at MIT, I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  . But skiing at Whistler with my family and eating endless 12 course ... compares to the comfort of being at home. It was nice to be around my family ... definitely feel like you belong at home, but it doesn't feel the same way it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... like not working at all. Guys. This is awesome. But wait. Is it selfish

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped ... Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You ... ) , more often than not I am in it deep. The class runs at a breakneck pace

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... at MIT that some variables are set: in order to be happy I must sleep

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... cover.” Blank stares at the table. The 18-yr-old started snorting over ... have teenagers at home, I realize this makes me an “authority/ parent

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes ... filling ... something. If it is expanding it has perimeters, at present far beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  ’s what summer internships are for, or at least that’s what I told myself ... of MIT would make me enjoy writing so much, but it has. At the MIT ... brand new environment for me—I’m sitting at a desk, not a lab bench, but

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... much in the past three weeks as I have at MIT, though the knowledge is ... your time, to interact with people at different levels within a company

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011