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  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  , don’t sweat it too much. Freshmen don't really need to find internships ... you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job ... summer. I wanted to spend time with my family, and I needed to get off

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  night. It was like hitting a huge, much-needed reset button on my life ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... finals week rolled around, I was desperate to be done. I stumbled through 1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  immediately follow it with another test that I would need to study copiously for ... left 3 days to study for two classes, each with finals I needed to ace ... , and this was going to be too much. Absolute best outcome from this was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a ... as long with people as they need. I have tutorial once per week. All ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  -looking appearance, and there's generally not as much freedom to make modifications to ... . Not much "normal" there. The people who are attracted to Simmons are ... . East Campus does have parties (um, Steer Roast?), but they tend to be a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  abstractions, which are usually pretty enjoyable to reason about; it’s only much ... college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in our suite lounge. Once Sam finally went to bed around 3:00, I was able

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... ] From: Dan Kirsch To: [Burton Conner Discussion] Subject: Massages tonight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a ... hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... still about an hour per app, sometimes more. They tell me not to worry ... that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  i was in a bad place and was desperately freelancing to make as much ... ’s not much for me to say about these things; not enough, at least.   i ... holding tomorrow, and how we’ve been working really hard to put everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  collected my things and moved to the lounge car once again, where I ... , he quieted down, much to my chagrin but likely appreciated by the chef ... anew to a much changed landscape, which seems in my mind more typical of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  floor when we realized that one has to pay a ridiculous entrance fee up ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  about this if you do not have foot problems) need to wear shoes that help ... heavy stuff on the back of the foot you may need to make each step smaller ... two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... figured a simulator is a good place to do it.  Until I saw a shiny, shiny ... give those to you?" "Only if you don't crash." "NOOOO I WANT MY

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room ... , we've been working in small groups to devise projects that we could take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  , except for this one, you don't need to bother you mom to find your birth ... talk a little bit about why they decided to spend so much time on this ... thinking about the branching paths we choose to take (or not), or how our new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  need to make the most of my time here. MIT gives a great deal of ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  worked out unevenly - 5 girls to 4 boys - their team had Garrett, who once ... the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to ... up on top of each other like the laundry I forgot to fold on Sunday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a ... courses, and with much help from Ash - and yet I was beginning to feel my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007