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

  

  't beat anyone over the head with it too hard, but their importance to the ... students who call out on behalf of the school to speak with alumni about ... grade according to a provided rubric/answer guide, and then return to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... missing out on the friend groups forming because it was taking me longer to ... , if you do decide to make the leap from a small town to a big city, don

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... little bit of face, part of the reason it took so long to edit it – aside

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I ... communities to love, and how quickly I have found the love returned. In DPhiE we ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... the blogs, and I just turned 40. It's hard to believe an entire decade ... world and about what I wanted to contribute to it. Much of the time I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . I could tell it meant something to the die-hard fans, but I was ... spoil it). If you do stay through the credits, do me a favor -- watch ... (Google has failed me on this one). It's towards the end of the credits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -nighters. The worst part of it all—I didn’t even know what had happened to me ... but failed to meet the expectations of my supervisor. I felt guilty ... space and time to heal over the cause of my depression. It was Lauren and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  "The Smiths." No one needs to see that in the background of my Zoom call ... packages piled up to be returned... ...or a picture of the Muddy ... 't healed any, almost as if it has as little grasp on the progression of time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  lived there, and I had to call my parents to prove it. So the sense of not ... ? card? whatever you call it, it was sturdy and well-designed The next day ... guarantee that I’m gonna make it? You never knew if you would be allowed to go

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  to the cost of housing on campus. But, if you're smart, you can find ... just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... whole "survival" thing in the bag. But, I understand it can be daunting to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  makes no sense to me why it’s called the Infinite. Again, look at that ... refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1 ... ’s landmarks because it’s huge and weird-looking. If you cross the street, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  a Division of Humanities. The committee report called for it to be a ... I am when it comes to history, is that 1865 is towards the end of the ... it's kinda surprising to me that the concept of named professorships

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was ... Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  his own British rejection. Guys, let’s face it: if you’ve got the ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that ... offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  to fix it. Here’s a list of things that I thought I’d done in the fall ... to class one month in because it was too difficult to wake up in the ... nudge, the “even if you don’t…,” and the offer to help me write an email

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  to them that I was worth something. If it wasn't enough for them, at ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... least. It would have been nice to have known earlier, but that was the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... the Scraper Bike movement in Oakland. If you haven't, you have to watch ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
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  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... admission. People called this "committing" to MIT, and I remember finding it ... . If I had a plan, it ate the plan. …But I'm still me. So I can come up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  friend to do it with you, if that makes you feel better. Heck, I'll do it ... . It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds ... , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  (click to enlarge): You'll also notice that the Lewis report calls not ... of this place, so the reaction to closing the place we've called home ... pyromaniac. During dorm-wide events, it's not uncommon to hear the Soviet

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015