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  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super ... get together for the first time. The Logarhythms were preparing for ... . Hmmmm. Acceptance for some. Rejection for most. How could you work there

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  backspace on this line for the past twenty minutes, trying to convey this ... the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... . For what it's worth, my significant other Joanna lived in Fifth West

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  investors. Originally, I was using Excel for this task. However, I came up ... as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick ... this much intensity. For the first time, I feel like my life is sort of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Penny for Your Thoughts by Erick P. '17 Although of course you end up ... keeps me up at night. The Political Science department here is excellent ... “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  to blog about). Post intros began piling up, losing their relevance and interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  has responsibility for cleaning up after herself and learns how it ... for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  failed for good I am back to having all those B's With one test, I will ... class, but for some really dumb reason, I lost a bunch of points on this ... bring up the average. And if you're at MIT, you know that "getting an A

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  I've been feeling guilty with these questions piling up so close to ... ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch-hitting for me in the comments... ------------------------------------- Vinayak

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... work too late to do anything. on weekends, when we do meet up, i have to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  ’m here to stay. To save up for food and gain experience, I tutored local ... spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do movies make it so easy to fold up a life and sew up a problem? Quickly and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  . This giant leopard moth is warming up its wings for takeoff ... Mathematics. Hi! Most children grow up thinking bugs are cool; I never stopped ... happily forgot about insects for four years in a wealth of friends, classes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite you to read some of these pointers. They'll set you up well for your ... , maybe I'd end up liking chemical engineering. And that's what decided it for me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  his ways. A marked up syllabus for 5.60/7.10/20.111, thermodynamics ... . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  advantage of this today and fueled up for my last day of studying with ... took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the Harvard Bridge A few dorms (especially the cook-for-yourself ones

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  time, and am leaving this post up because I still think the critique ... intended to "tap into the demand for an elite American education from the ... 's online format will provide an elite electronic education for those huddled

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  choose your courses for frosh year =p) Again, this is only my ... in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for ... bell curve), and 3.091 got the lectures recorded on video (for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  the edge of the unknown for me, personally. The path of the train up to ... pile up out West, however. Two trains have been stuck waiting for ... up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  any. i talk to all my friends, i try to come up with reasons for and ... same kind of made-up reasons about it being better for me, about how it ... blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes me feel like my brain has broken and turned into soft food for babies ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  about frozen. this was to set up the stage for when, in late september ... love email. leading up to mit you get a handful of emails about ... chat for emails. as the name suggests, it's a list of emails that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021