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  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the spring, it will be time for me to leave MIT and venture out into the real ... scored. But the main focus of your attention should be on showing the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your ... writing. But it took me out on the commuter rail to a part of the state ... Relativity problem set, which contained two of the easiest problems and also

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my ... one of those celebrity clubs. Check out our sweet setup: The ... playing Gamecube and/or discussing the political leanings of Jesus at 4 AM

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... “craft bold, memorable designs that capture the unique spirit of the Class

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... bottom of the email, after we had already (extensively) drafted, reviewed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... came out, some of you were happy and would have found the above message ... the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  student, and the majority of my friends here are British. Finally, we have ... some shopping in some of the numerous markets. In Cambridge there are lots of fun things to do as well, like punting down the Cam (the river

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  Science, and Applied Biological Sciences", existed in the MIT Course Handbook for 17 years without any faculty or staff, until the last remaining graduate student lost all contact with the department. Starting in the Fall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and ... pictures. This girl was there the whole time, and all of my pictures have ... the only state that probably loves any of its senators more than

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any ... probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... Podcast, and freak out over Brexit. The only grain of similarity I could get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... convey who you are (or some aspect of who you are). If I, the reader, am

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... the whole college. Those of you with whom I've spoken about Oberlin know ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  the heart of the Alps. Our lab works with extremely low temperatures, so ... all parts of the world and help them determine their magnetic properties ... in the Alps, and take advantage of the July sales that happen all

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... member of the Foreign Languages & Literatures (Chinese) faculty and ... So, I'm back in the office after this weekend's wedding. It was great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... -eyed, confident, and on top of the world. So, now, this may be the moment where you ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on soldier protection and survivability needs, and the relevancy of research ... At the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT, the Army, and
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try ... of quarantine, we were given the chance to make the recipes earlier ... . Here are some of the things we've made! Vegetable Rice Bowl by Maangchi

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the ... . I take Spotify very seriously. One of the first things I do when I ... interesting way to get to know what kind of person they are. Also... The

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best ... ; I compared the impact on US peanut butter sales of two Salmonella

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -supporting adults do. The illusion of adulthood: it continues. In the last month and ... ; naturally, 99% of the words spewing forth from my facehole have been ... – they're not great – but as the blogs already have four years of Keri

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014