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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  amazing Alumni Directory (https://alum.mit.edu/as/index.html) to get in ... complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  discussion section, led by TFs (Teaching Fellows). A Departmental Writing ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a ... also get an experience of a contrasting culture and learning style. At

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  passengers passes by. Then, a train originally destined to Ashmont rolls by ... that we get to take a bustitution to North Station, since Lechmere is ... ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look ... to work a random barista job that realistically will not contribute to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  'm hoping to get some answers this fall by taking a business class, 15 ... . I've been thinking a lot about the many steps I took to get here, as ... In order to increase our chances of getting a good referral, we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... -branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the ... cover a host of truly amazing feats. It was my first real introduction to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... painting by number.  While the finished product could resemble a masterpiece, generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... probably be ruled by dolphins within a matter of weeks. Anyways, Nora was kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ’m prone to tripping over myself), so I wasn’t getting a lot of encouragement ... that could be a blog piece by itself. What I began to experience that ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... possible to get good grades at MIT if someone enrolls at the institute from a ... colleges. Otherwise, you can just get a letter written by your school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  getting admitted, then to actually dream of getting admitted. Like a cheesy ... wasn’t a joke. Even now I’m not quite used to it: I’ll be walking by ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  voice of God, urging him to quit his job and become a full-time pastor. By ... could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  you're going to get a shot. —Robo-CJ another Disney live action reboot ... of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  school, open up Paint.NET, and get to work. It was a fun past time, and ... goal is honestly to get picked to be a [annotation note="Goal for all of ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... uproar seemed to increase by 10 decibels. They came up, two at a time, to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  fire to which students responded by throwing a dance party to "We Didn ... friends and I set up a website and sent an email to the student and alumni ... two layers: a t-shirt and my winter coat. True to form, I had to shed

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry ... those knock-your-socks-off prospectives. Although Adam was by no means a ... that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005