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

  

  Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The ... 's wrong with OAuth? I don't remember what their answers were, but I do ... anything from doing weekly setup and teardown, to helping organize one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... same diff it doesn't change what you would actually do per project ... decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding

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

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  , brown and East Asian Google and Microsoft employees while across the chasm ... welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood ... native tongue. If you know what to do you know what to do. If you don

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  kill me, I do not make a sound. I give you a studfinder. You ask me for ... Life workers everywhere stop what they are doing and hum along in perfect pitch ... do not receive applications. You send out an email for UA applications

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  independently wealthy from Google's acquisition of their start-up. OK, that wasn ... to work, and continued to do an even worse job. It slowly sunk in: it

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

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

  

  internships at the [annotation note="like microsoft, apple, google"]big tech ... bet that you guys are doing this with the "Why do you want to apply to ... here]". It makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong, even though I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  enough. Successful applicants really do come in all shapes and sizes and ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... really wasn’t concerned where because I had no idea what I was going to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  having to do community service, which confused me because our school didn’t have any such requirement. When I asked why he was doing it, he said it ... lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to ... "Applying Sideways" blog, it's more important that you do things you love when

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

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

  

  the fun way and most of your friends do it with you. —TK '23 walking ... in the end but it feels mostly awful while you do it (even though you ... how to do one lap of freestyle successfully five minutes beforehand

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

  50 Reflections

  

  changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I ... around the clock, doing homework, sleeping, whatever. Most were bloggers ... , MIKE YANG. DO YOU HAVE ANY KIDS? DO YOU??? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... that package? It was all I could do to balance my sanity between the ... real glimmer of hope emerged. You do have a chance, I told myself. Penn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all ... school, I'd go to the library and do work in this school, I'd go to sleep ... commitments. (Why else do we have regrets?) We, external observers, see Wheeler

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere ... piece, although that’s what I’m trying to do today. It’s not that a blog ... ”--our family in Ethiopia, and how they were doing, who was doing what. My cousins

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  idea to give an introduction to ESP, and what we do, that's shorter than ... 's motto is learn anything, teach anything, do anything, and we really mean ... possibility. Imagine what we could do if we didn't have to worry about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ? Learn anything The extracurricular he really likes doing Hi, are you ... anything, do anything!” And the first time I looked at the class catalog, I ... . what do you see? why is the world this way? who am i?” One of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  the technological one. People are looking at the things their doing in ... from Google Earth to help with comparing to how it looks today ... the science occurring at MIT than our modern tours do. By watching this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  classes there, and if you do well enough in their classes you’re basically ... . It’s built to be part time, it’s right up the street (I tend to do ... for my plans. Do as much as I can and learn as much as I can at Akamai

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list happened :) Some commentary - THINGS I DID DO (yellow) 1. Pull an all

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of stuff your brain *thinks* you can do. When you cram those years with stuff ... pains you've ached. The hard things you can do that you didn't even know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014