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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... your enjoyment: Javi '08 posed in front of a very green display, because

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school ... 't portray yourself in your application as who you think MIT wants to see ... backstage cooking act leads to a run-in with Tetazoo hallmates Noah '09 and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... hurt like hell.  So I proceeded to get a tattoo and then party until 3 ... literally wept in the center suite of my floor, a senior took my hand and told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  wanted to become a movie director. We also get to watch a movie every ... " post in a while, because I think I jinxed sophomore fall last time. I ... 'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  equations in Latex. 20 pages of chicken scratch later and a solid 1.5 weeks ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... normally rewarded to students), or don't get anywhere after a certain length ... . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a ... free swag and begging for your email address. You can get a sense of what ... how to get your own radio show? Here's your chance! You'll also be able

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  see them when or if you get a chance. My seat is, in my opinion, more ... to do. ***actually, I just found this blog post on a bar stool in ... from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... social media, broadly defined. In short, I wanted to design and teach the ... There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My ... his room and attended 6.006–Intro to Algorithms, a course located in the ... ;     After picking up Paul, my friend Andy proceeded to get a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  friends, you're likely to finish the movie and the pizza and get into a ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... 't personally get into Boston much during the week, and on a weekday night you're

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  free to close this tab or even turn off your computer and go take a walk ... some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  design is that you get to actually see your work in use, especially when it ... [/caption] MIT ID holders also get free entry to most nearby museums, a luxury I ... a few friends, and that was where I got to see Nonchaloir in person

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and ... to get. Usually you can buy older editions of textbooks for a lot less ... ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  answer. In short, when it comes to programming skills that matter, we have ... source project, which is a great idea. I urge all of you to join me in this ... a crème of the crop Venture Capitalist in Silicon Valley to expand and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  a page of handwritten notes for. We’re expected to understand and ... notes I take in a typical week of classes.  2.086- Numerical Computation ... before every lecture (1.5 hrs MW), so I opt to listen in and annotate those

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I ... subway lines and a few major roads. "Hmm," I thought. "If I can get to Mass ... , even though it took more than half a term, I was able to get card access

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  ; Ashima's first years of marriage in America; the Ganguli's trip to India ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big ... Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  to be a valuable pause in the action. I know I’m sometimes less likely to point out flaws in a system while there’s work to be done; this way ... “your ideas are valuable, but you tend to keep quiet during meetings.” So

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus ... of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of that, in a small white wooden building that once served the base as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005