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

  

  I used to. The good news is you don't have to be an OnlyFans model entrepreneur to have some side hustles at MIT. Unfortunately, the only blog ... decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding

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

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  simply wasn’t enough time to come to terms with it.  It was hard. All of ... exceptions to simply trying to spend as much time with one another as possible, it was really really hard. But, when it was time to leave campus there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... academic obligations seem to expand to fit the time allotted; I had a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  year and moved to Bangalore. I wonder how much these things would have ... kindness. Help people. Contribute to your community. There were moments in ... suggest. All this left me with 5 minutes time in evening to patch up things

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

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  what I imagine it must be like to have your friends organize a barn ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love ... outside. It presents new conveniences, given the fact that I just have to go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... existed back then. That must have taken a long time right? But 2012; that ... with way more than I thought I'd be able to. Several times I drew lines

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself ... people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I ... seem to have time to catch up on sleep because, like many other people on

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  along the lines of: “Ceri, you’re going to have to revise your college ... will find your community of people, as long as you have the courage to go ... student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China ... our relatives’ home. I only have one, clear memory from that time: once ... to play with. At that time, I felt there were only these two types, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even ... 's super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot ... to have another reason to visit.   Every Thursday I have a check

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  , maybe a dorm is a good place to stay for your time here. Many people stay ... to have. All you do is put in the address you're starting from, where ... subsidized Blue Bike membership, if you're looking to bike without having to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... . There are great regional bike maps - not to mention Google Maps Biking ... the last few years. If you're not a policy wonk, you may have missed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  have more time to hone my skills. But if I take an interest in chemistry ... to diminish the adversities she and her family have encountered. At the same time, I think it's incredibly dishonest to hide behind a blanket

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the ... . If you have time for only one Yultide post, stop reading this and ... poems you write in middle to high school years when you have feelings. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  have access to sophisticated surveying equipment, and there’s very little ... protections failed. Spring protections have to be constructed where there is ... have to find a spring, creek, or river to work with. As you can see from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  ), so there's always plenty of time to have your points heard. 2:26 -- I ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Christine Walley to get my HASS concentration form filled out. You're supposed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... -dramatic “senior” solo to end my time in the group. It’s sometimes hard to notice ... country, and we got to tour around different parts of MIT. (I have a vague

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  /dance/yoga breaks. Don’t think that you have to be working or occupied all the time ... Charlie walking into Willy Wonka’s factory for the first time). I started to ... it ever did when I was applying. I wouldn’t have had to worry about if

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

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  graduate student), having never flown a drone before, took it to the beach to ... in the Media Lab like to have fun. And now the story gets exciting ... course, it was time to fly to drone. Unfortunately, half of the fun of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  read this. Perhaps you've been having a rough time dealing with the wait. Or perhaps it's passed and now you're having a rough time dealing with ... to be MIT. You're going to have a wonderful, meaningful college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015