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  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... of a road to learning something new is always bumpy. Learning Solid ... prototypes out of foam, then later 3D printed them. I’ve learned how to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... president of your dorm as a junior. This is a beautiful thing, and not one to ... semester to acclimate to the pressure-cooker of MIT. For more info, read the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... III again, I just want to establish some ground rules about the kind of ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  the end of the world. Explore. Don't force yourself to study something ... where you instantly figure out what you want to do for the rest of your ... might be able to find funding for your travels. Take advantage of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  some parts of the path, there were even options for us to take depending ... the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ ... ’ve been a better idea to do it at a warmer time of the year, but well… Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  campus and of particular interest to prospective students and incoming ... plenty of material to interest you. Advanced scholars may also wish to ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this letter may be of benefit to some current student, or some future student. I hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

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

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  of the Student Center! Several people, including myself dash out to ... little bit of face, part of the reason it took so long to edit it – aside ... progress of the news, to which I note the decreased efficiency of the office

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  of the class of 2011. I was really psyched to go despite the ... . Please feel free to be honest... if you think that my sort of person can ... never heard of "Intel", "Westinghouse", or "IMO" before coming to MIT. I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... going to be different than the myriad of other competing essays? Too ... 're trying to provide a well-organized collection of facts to a reader that may

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... to actively put yourself out of your comfort zone as often as possible ... casting agents for the next season of Game of Thrones and just happen to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... “typical” four-year timespan. 16% works out to a little less than 1/6 of the ... pursue internships; one of my fellow panelists took a semester to work for

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school ... look forward to at the start of a long weekend: to settle down with old ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... experience has been great, it's allowed me to take a lot of steps back and ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to learn so much about all of you, so I thought it was our turn to share a ... , writers, researchers, and more. Some of us listen to Bartók while others

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect ... ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the ... student do you need to be to get one? Those types of articles feel like a culmination of an MIT career. They were given to only the perfect students, with

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are ... people. My quest to trace the past residents of my room began in early

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  internationals echoed my sentiment; I tried to believe that it was part of this ... store and reheat, suffers little in terms of flavor. Friendly to [annotation note="cj: stressed out, busy, lots of things to do, idk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  connections, networks of people, and more. I get to keep using tools and methods ... easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to ... decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021