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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  know if a better time works.") to no avail. Eventually, I left, and one ... wanted to value my own time and skillset more. It's okay if I can't find ... only be made if I have the privilege of stepping aside, and to be honest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... to be a real person. Like a real person who pays bills. But then I paid

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic emails to professors: “I have been ill for quite some time now, and it is ... , “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  practical skills portion. Excited to have gotten that far in the process, I ... was, too. Otherwise I'd have nothing to do this summer. The research ... time only one word (corresponding to one of the images on the screen) is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... were difficult, but it mattered also that I couldn't find the time to ... time. As a result, though, I feel an obligation of sorts to my middle

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  't have anything to do, I felt guilty - like I should be doing work or ... all mine. I have an Awesome Summer Job (thanks to UPOP!) This summer I ... times I don't want to be anywhere else. I do belong here, after all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be ... actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  my resume to half the booths I walked past because I may have gone a ... got the internship, awesome! Now, I just have to like… actually work or ... have a meeting with my mentor to talk about the spec and talk about the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  to have them during this hellish week. I started my week pretty okay ... around 4:30PM before heading over to HMart to have our first meal of the ... break. But I also planned to have Saturday represent the end to a bad week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... gate at jfk... how i'd missed this[/caption] Now, you have to understand ... old times – it was mundane in the best way. I said goodbye to my parents

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  -studying before I got to school that probably cushioned me from the shock I’d have ... that scary mathematical jargon for the first time. The fact that I have ... , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  't. This is a list of the HASS classes I have taken up to this term and ... that I can either concentrate in Economics (have to take another class in Econ), Spanish (have to take Spanish IV), or even Japanese (have to take

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  have their own lengthy Wikipedia page, in addition to a chronology at hacks.mit.edu. (pssssst, hey 2016's! We only have 2.5 years to do #82 ... Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  with the background; I would never have imagined it to be bright, Barbie ... , but kudos to them for doing so. We had a few hours of free time back at ... If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  ’t have to make my way back to Nairobi amidst these very uncertain ... know that we were actually living a countdown to a time when our lives ... who have lost people to the virus, or who have sick loved ones.   

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  were a cofounder of a startup, then you have to be psyched about what you're ... -chasing techbros. many of the people i talked to were young, and had the time lined ... in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  hours that driving into Manhattan added to commute time, the Lucky Star ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my ... finally learned how to code, despite resisting it stupidly during my time at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... . The doctor finally saw me, and then sent me right away to have an X ... moved off campus. More on that another time. We went up to one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  students have so much freedom to pick their dorms, or why we don't force ... : Furthermore, Douglas wrote, at the time there was an “existential issue ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think ... than I once was. I have to maintain the relationships that matter in my life. My schoolwork is increasingly difficult. I have people to mentor

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023