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

  

  same thing just to get paid for it.   Library Desk Worker This is ... have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader ... gets leaked and to my knowledge nothing dangerous is tested on volunteers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  -English guide are inspired by How To Get Around MIT, the student-produced handbook ... of 2012, you can and should get your copy of How To Get Around MIT this ... this summer, I decided to get involved in helping produce the next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  something constructive to do rather than getting in to trouble. In the last 25 ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... classroom, how to use power tools, how to put things in places where they ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my

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

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was ... HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser ... to be catapulted to the upper echelon of schools in the contest. Drexel

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually ... are where it's at. Also, it's really, really tough to get a C in a HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  , I manage to discombobulate the tiny bones in my wrist, and we all get ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was ... extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a ... years, compete well in three different forms of debate, and go to Worlds

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... walk around and talk to reps from the companies in a desperate attempt to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  gets in the way of your work or school, you have to deal with it and ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... project in Ethiopia. When back on campus, I continued to be involved in many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  year for me. I was getting in to new things, branching out in school, and ... [/annotation] + listening to hamilton journaling, more like how 2 get urself to face ur ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  in its north and south walls, to allow for expansion of the dorm. Today ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Friday, November 4th 11:59pm. WIN! (Also known as, do you know how to ... process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place ... apply to. “M.I.T.,” I replied. “Oh, M.I.T.?” she mused. “How ironic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  have learned this semester is that they are vital to understanding how ... experiences I have had in Brazil, South Africa and now Vietnam, but also because ... have) into perspective and help you define what you want to do in an ever

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too ... requires passion, and, luckily, you get to define passion on your own terms.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005