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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic Congressional district in the nation according to the Cook PVI index, which is NY ... . next to Central Park? That's where my medical school (and the medical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

    To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog ... #springbreak2011 Adventures to keep your taste buds tingling with excitement ... , January 21, 2011 was definitely a GREAT day to start a weekend adventure. I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... these things happened together?" I wandered over to the Facebook group to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... product design, so thank you DPD for exposing me to my future career⚙️! I have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... 200+ clubs that exist at mit need to have people running them or ... ’re not used to not seeing the sun every day (yes looking at you tropical

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... Jebby's so productive"[/caption] Anyway, I'm not going to do a full tour of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... ="for legal reason i have to say stealing and plagiarism is bad"]blame me though?[/annotation] I mean, MIT is objectively great. Now that’s not to say it’s perfect

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests ... testing requirements here. I’m happy to announce our decision to ... improve access for students applying to MIT. Below are answers to some

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  arrow goes from the nucleophile to the electrophile. Enantiomers can't be ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real-life appear to be well, not that different. The last question of an Orgo exam

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  yet here I am, struggling to remember just exactly where I was 2 years ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow. The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... cliché but it meant a lot to me, especially considering where I had come from, and how I used to be. I used to be afraid of change. Complacency

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip to Korea - during which he still brought out his workbooks to study

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  stuck like glue to the bus that took me directly from the apartment to ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... summer leading up to MY freshman year I haunted these blogs and I expect

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012