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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 ... "]UROP[/annotation]/ELO The go-to [annotation note="I just found out other schools use the term ... 't beat anyone over the head with it too hard, but their importance to the

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

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... . Vacuously true (adj.): A statement is said to be vacuously true if it is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  think an event might be useful, go to it! Beyond the practical advice ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can't help but be viscerally reminded of how it all felt to me last year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  strategies for how to deal with it. Sometimes I don't know how to use a tool ... over it for not knowing how to utilize these tools from the start. I can ... the fall semester, only to be unearthed again over [annotation note="Independent

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... opened the package later, it turned out to be two Amazon Echoes. Nothing

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  directly, and sending it to us so we can keep track. I don't remember much ... similar program to Splash. Except, you know, it's virtual. And the ... then, it's expanded to include middle schoolers, and be held in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm has a bruise that looks like black death, it still hurts to sit down

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 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 ... , but you know what they mean. It can’t be taught, but it can be lost ... where the issues lay. However, I can see from time to time that you are

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

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and ... robotics team, which used to be a fairly small club when I first joined, now

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  used to keep every single email that came into my inbox out of frosh ... to be notified about every single event on campus"]deleted it,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  . Personally speaking, maybe it's because I'm used to getting stuff immediately ... seven weeks in, it's a bit more like learning how to swim. You can cling ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  use to force myself to learn. I hope it is anyway. # I’m used to ... it because I want to learn as much as I can in a limited period of time ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  't immediately say yes, but rather asked if I can have time to think about it ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  do useful things. 2. It is sometimes okay and necessary to run away ... backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually ... semester. I loved to complain about this class when I was taking it, but some

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

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a ... could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  an all-too-realistic dream, but once you get used to it, the cool water ... and are about to finish [annotation note="SPOILERS: Here are some quick ... medical giants to visionary startups. This means that some projects can take

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  as opposed to something that I can use to reach a certain goal in life ... were suddenly gone. I used to feel guilty sacrificing work time to have ... -nighters. The worst part of it all—I didn’t even know what had happened to me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  had past experience lining soccer fields and introduced us to the method ... stretched the length was actually longer than what we measured it to be. We ... measurements longer down the line, and it caused our overall footprint to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... having not seen each other in months. “Make it quick,” he remarked, as if ... again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seak out ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then ... ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014