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

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... need to invest yourself in something that probably won’t work out, and if ... . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... hope you enjoy reading mine. March 2020 What does it take to get to know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  distancing. Fingers-crossed for returning to a much healthier Cambridge soon ... exceptions to simply trying to spend as much time with one another as possible ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• 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 ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned

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

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz ... get around to this coffee table that I'd first dreamed of more than a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other ... door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  take a step, expecting there to be more staircase, when there’s nothing but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... German". In particular, all undergraduates needed to present a thesis of ... much identical to the PE requirement today. Needed are 8 points of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to ... self-confidence in my ability to get into such a well-known and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out Guide to MIT: Academics here. GOOD REASONS TO CHOOSE A DORM CULTURAL ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... don't feel like you need to be on a strict schedule :) 11. For those of ... the dining halls, now's a good time to check them out :) Especially

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  college), and yet I've held down two to three jobs at a time pretty much ... a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house ... weeks to happen). my hope is that it can serve as one more resource, a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  spelling and grammar stuff. I could totally write a much less sappy ‘how to ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... high school was expected to apply somewhere. I talked with my dad a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014