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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  internships at Facebook and Google. Maybe there's a chance I can get an ... D-3: I need a resume?! I have a busy week ahead--an 18.02 pset due the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... as an international student. Recruiting season feels like a make ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... stuff, and had a blast doing it...) If you’re feeling burnt out from ... ). The symbol of the New Orleans Saints is called a fleur-de

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  island that Boston Logan Airport is on. The line on Google Maps was a ferry ... fighting like a man beating the air, but to do it so as to work towards ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  . While I'm not a prefrosh, I do enjoy a good pillow fight every now and ... to do tomorrow. Maybe I'll play Worms: A Space Odyssey? Yeah, that ... Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  , Thursday, Friday. A march of things to do, every minute of the day wrangled ... Google Calendar like a stamp collector would fill their collection. Every ... two weeks doing work in.) If you walk a little more, you’ll see a small

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... . Sorry guys. Hope you didn't have your heart set on a real, live, poetic ode. As a freshman, I would, on occasion, hear people talking about the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  , with a delay really only to get the plane de-iced (nice work Jet ... Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation called Transforming Transportation. Flying down was a bit nerve wracking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  science. What can I do to show my stuff?" Well, there are a number of things ... Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  where my mentor and I jump on a call to do some pair programming. I also ... period during this block where we all jump on a Google Meet and talk about ... ' meeting, in which we open up a Google Doc and talk about all the things that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  is a sign that you're doing it right! Allow a miracle to happen. As I ... excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  little to do with your merits as a learner and a person. I discovered this ... to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... complete life’s greatest project. So relax, but do write your college essay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  track to have a gorgeous Google Glass app. :) And for ... college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick than I realized...) It's a preposterous idea considering how many

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life–choosing a career, getting married, having kids, getting promoted (or fired

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  duration of our meal. I do not know why.   12:30 On a normal day, I’d go ... -of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a tradition at my company, see: every time someone has a birthday, an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new ... feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... off one thing after another. Until, they eventually travel a full circle

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  did a little jig (Yes, I do that too) and went winging off to Google to ... 're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer, you'll find a pretty heavy ... try out for their annual competition, Mic-Check. If a student had a poem

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  ://lbgtq.mit.edu/ My time here (all four weeks :O) as a transwoman have been really great ... So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... frequently used examples of this is restrooms. A transgender woman can’t be

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  O.M.G. It's over, finally. For the last two weeks all of the ... noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect ... , so let me do my best to help you understand. When I got to campus we

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009