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  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  difficult for those who may not even realize the immense potential of ... subjects.  So for a while now, many discussions have been going on within a number of communities for minorities here on campus about ways that we as a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  weekend CPW's origins are rooted in a program for prospective women and ... those that get more people to enroll. For example, the Admissions Office would match admitted students to current students for overnight stays over

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  ’t understand (and can’t easily clarify for yourself with a quick google search ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... yes to most of them. Never say no, especially if it makes for a good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  unedited (except for where I removed personally identifiable information at ... they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in reading, travelling and backpacking along North India for two months, and

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

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

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... been waiting for? Bryan’s life after the blogs Big secret: I actually ... ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  by the way passive mechanisms allow us to move about. For example, this ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... word was “nosy”), living for witnessing others’ moments. I hope I will

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture ... independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... poverty. A quick google search of her name brings many articles listing the ... ’s article titled "A Call for Accountability: Anti Blackness in The Menstrual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft ... for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and six for one. I think I am somewhat different from the "standard" MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• 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 ... -2025, MIT minimum wage for students is $15.00/hr. Unless otherwise specified ... UROP for their undergraduate research and I feel so unspecial

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college ... upperclassmen are preferred for [annotation note="some big companies have freshman ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  note="I’ve never turned my rambling not-intended-for-blog into blog ... that system but I didn’t. I liked physics C for itself but I also liked that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT ... gut reactions were: Tinder for startups? Isn't that AngelList? Or YC Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  )—on Tuesday night, I went to see Vince Staples for the second time, which was ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended ... understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  Google in California, and successfully beginning well construction for my ... I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... application pieces and statistics for each one, I immediately felt underprepared ... vs. Yale nor application acceptance rates for any school. (Again, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ’s worth of Google Sheets."]we introduced “dashboards”[/annotation] for each ... . If you're still hungry for more details on this wacky game, never fear, for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm ... entire language for a regional accent. The language we learned didn

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019