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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  me, “I’m happy you’re getting rejections! They’re important to show you ... -term thinker rolled into one. Thanks to a Concerned Proactive Mentor, I had a ... application to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all which have freshman

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  because I couldn’t get myself to knock out, which apparently spooked one of ... to rent river shoes and water sticks to get ourselves through ... proactively tried to understand my background: I read history articles, watched

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  —organizational systems to manage it. Making Sure I Don't Die: Google Calendar + Todoist ... to get immediate feedback again, although it was also kind of a ... goal of this system is to make sure everything gets done at an even pace

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  in your lap. Rule No. 2 Talk Don't be afraid to talk to people, no matter what their rank is in comparison to yours. You have a lot to say ...  you have the length of an elevator ride to pitch an idea. You can't get

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  to plan out schedules when i have the time: student.mit.edu/catalog/index ... down to a heading 4, but i think it'll just keep getting better so i ... primarily use. it's an indispensable way to quickly see how your schedules

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population. Italy is also home to 50+ MIT undergraduate and graduate students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  Timeline. Timeline allows for your friends to basically scroll back through your Facebook forever to see developments that have occurred along the ... best way for us to use Facebook pages? Groups? Does Google Plus help at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You ... dropdown. After that, you can save your composition to your profile, and ... were lucky enough to win fourth prize, which means that we get some nice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  with so many different motivations are attracted to Career Fair, it gets ... we needed to catch to get to iRobot. But then we couldn't find the bus ... time to get to the hotel. By the time we arrived at HQ, we were an hour

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But ... , at least.) So, yes, textbooks help, but no, you're not going to get an ... they're testing isn't your ability to memorize and regurgitate (hence the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  didn't want to move too far away, because it would be too hard to get to ... get to campus by bus, or about half that if I decide to drive. The bus ... citizen. What am I hoping to impart with this message? Live in a dorm your

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  more. If you’re planning to actually use any of these, definitely do your ... ’t die. I tried to take steps that would make getting murdered less ... . You've got to advocate for yourself, and, if you're like me and prefer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  though. We had a big push to get this website out ASAP when we realized ... website[/caption] This is all to say that if you're bored at home and want ... Syndrome, but I cannot explain how satisfying it was to see this website

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  message that led you to the Frontier Airlines website. It turns out that ... (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor ... to the 3rd floor lounge tripled due to the stepping-over of crowds of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written ... spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  reason to rush your application to us by November 1st, especially if you ... , to help proactively answer questions about what we're asking, and why we're asking it, to help you get the information you need as quickly as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  important to me saying, "Get your shit together Caroline." Getting my shit ... started to keep track. I adapted a Google Sheets Monthly Budget template and ... to end of "Definitely getting" list. The act of listing helps me

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  with social and cultural adjustments to campus? (Can I get my dreads done ... . I guess what I'm trying to say here is: create your own rankings based ... your first instinct will be to take my list, and fire back all those

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  plenty of dreams in attendance. Check your “most visited” website stats: Google ... to you. They might even add your resume to the thick stack on their ... the MIT bubble. You get to preview what’s way ahead. The life beyond and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015