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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  product manager position. At one point in the interview, they asked me ... connect with people. I have many friends in my work and I'm grateful to ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... have goals in life. I never really got around to making any before I came

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people could tune in. Below is the email from President Reif describing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was ... content learned in lectures and provide recitation sheets where you apply ... stressful weeks. He often checks in on all of us and reminds us to stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note ... applicants -- in fact, we think it took us longer than it ever has before to ... . '24 of Arizona, who was named after the stop codon in DNA (!!!!), writes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  just know me in person - might know that I have one true love, and its ... since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story have stayed with me through rougher periods in my life. I can't really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can't quite describe. i feel like i've been in LA forever, but i also feel like ... 's because time doesn't really pass in LA - every day looks exactly the same

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  , however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in ... Imperial College, London — in Italy for 5 days. We adventured around Rome and ... , she going to Vienna and Budapest, me spending 5 more days in Italy and 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  Every day, we began in the same place. The bathroom, where we ... drag you out naked). Unlike most other boarding schools in the country ... of the few times everyone could see everyone else in the school

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  in this field, etc. It is no longer a question that can be easily ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few ... mother due to breast cancer in 2007. The day she died I promised her that I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  designed and administered in 2014. The takeaway: young women at MIT are every ... 's controlled for major, equal leadership and participation in extracurricular ... , difficulties and differences in experience arising from sexism. Despite her

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from ... used to say, “Walk in like you own the place.” Marching through the Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... airplane tires stacked on top of each other and covered in glass. Meeting ... balls everywhere.” The message was clear – Volaris believes in

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  , rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... , all Stanford students. There are no clouds in the sky. Ever. The statues of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... of them were intriguing in their own way, only a few were classes that ... - before some things that came up in my life made it too difficult to keep

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012