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• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ask your boss if it sounds right. For crying out loud, you Google it. I ... tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Google dot com and type in “animation for high schoolers.” When nothing ... compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once, stumbling onto Anna’s post, “Being Qualified for MIT”, but only with distant

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

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

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling

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

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022