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  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  around the U.S. and it's entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I ... something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it to inspire people to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Here's the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  way to track my spending. I opened an account with the MIT Federal ... recurring payments I had and when they had to be paid, so that I'll know what needs to be paid and when so that I won't have unexpected withdrawals or

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... , sometimes to get [annotation note="Framingham has the largest Brazilian ... call my virtual critters in the OTHER Nintendo-affiliated Niantic game

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... and why they decided to create basically the best thing ever. The

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  ). I took the occasional break to have a hot drink inside. I'm being ... : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... only went bowling once during the semester. It just happened to be ... -Related Procrastination Games, although the two were sometimes interchangeable if you could

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  on the internet did not turn out to be helpful. You can find things ... would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I ... available to student-kind: the friendly neighborhood vending machine. But

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... pictures to show you just yet[/caption] During the spring, I was able to get ... for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  invited three MIT alums to be the panelists - Berta (Matt's friend, from '00 ... , if you had to choose only one person to hug or to chat, who would it be ... the most difficult to hug would be yourself, and thus I would probably

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  details may be specific to Plaz, the overarching message - time management ... successful. If I forgot something, I had easy access to my room. The area was ... was the night before the final. I wanted to be prepared as I could be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  system which is meant to estimate the number of hours you’re intended to be ... experiment was meant to uphold. Even if it was the same material, moving from ... additional challenges of this lab proved to be much more difficult than the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  360's. So don't let anyone tell you being smart doesn't pay off. And if ... don't have the money to send me, so I join the Navy and convince the ... , participate in a week-long introduction to the Navy, and on August 28th I take

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  year through sophomore year. I understand what it's like to be failing ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to hold me and if I did alright on the 2nd test and the final I would be ok

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

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  anonymous interview scenario, readers don’t know if the reporter is just be ... might be too technical for the general public to ever understand why this ... carelessly and always runs the risk of being hacked or leaked, leading to scams

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  asked if my parents had forced me to be there. It was quite the opposite ... shift to match the student? How can I tell if someone understood me? I ... the COVID-19 situation was being handled much better than in the states

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  , and if possible, talk to those in the industry when you can (most people ... separate time spent to think or perform calculations, and sometimes if the ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  -A grades are not the only ways to be successful (props to you if you are ... to the discussions around me. Everyone else seemed to be teaching ... questions to let everyone else in the class know how smart they are. They

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  anything extra for MIT phones to receive outside calls, and the problem was ... 's gonna be due back on the 29th!" Sometimes you're asked to make movie ... . Then there are the rare occasions when you'll have to handle a stray

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  calls you to yell at you over the phone! Even if you tell yourself you ... appropriate if I was listening to the song right now, but I'm actually bouncing ... how you vow to reinvent yourself, you will still be yourself at the end

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  I learned and the grades I earned. But If I went to more lectures ... able to several personal projects in the time I would be taking a class ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023