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

  

  challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions ... internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... . Other MIT students who are more capable than me likely have a much easier

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... dorm is pretty uniform in culture (e.g. Maseeh). Explore as much as ... than, say, Maseeh, which is at a higher pricing tier but will likely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite ... Biochemistry. By the way, Pathology is a really fascinating Tripos too! Now

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management. That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw ... school -- why not take a break and relax knowing that MIT is in your pocket

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  to continue to progress, and knowing the way forward is a jagged line ... . Persistence, and also patience: flux and flow, as much a part of thermodynamics ... wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  , how it would feel to be rejected so that the emotion wouldn't come as a ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need to be reminded, it is that time of year: the time when tensions run

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  , which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... how much longer until he/she graduates, but you didn't ask, so I'll tell ... scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  a representative example"]papers[/annotation] on how children actually ... CHI PLAY. The SGDC is a 'track' within the CHI PLAY conference, and I ... virtual, and one is a physical robot. Basically, what I was saying in that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  are much smarter than I. Also, I'm kind of an asshole about how smart I ... much better score if I tried. So after taking them a second time, I ... that is true, the problem you're dealing with is so much bigger than that

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  responsibility is now yours to form a student-teacher relationship. Otherwise they ... characters, like my 7.03 professor: (Professor Fink is also a widely ... system called Tech Cash, which is basically like a debit card that works

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... , and after whitewater kayaking and wakeboarding, I ask how the server is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a ... disconnected from all the people there. I mean, how do you even start a

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

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  listing 205 classes and why they loved that specific class. Here is a ... ) Discussions (9) Problem-Sets (6) Friends/People (5) Lastly, here is a list ... virtually. The teaching team is amazing, they put in so much effort, and it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  . Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the ... wedding receptions, there wasn't much of a discussion about where we would ... is working for Aurora Flight Sciences, an aerospace company with a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  years. I think I also knew that this is a pretty big deal; I expected that ... speaker to ask questions is ultimately how I got my first UROP. Since then ... important habit, professionally. I have a much broader appreciation for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  cries. He yells about how unfair it all is. He's a three-year-old inside a ... strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to a responsibility or a relationship. The word commit is from Latin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  how lovely she is then! 12:30pm leave Burdick's and decide to walk to ... learning a lot about how production companies operate, but I'm also discovering what it's like to work across time zones with a team that is mostly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  : “...Which...ones…?” Me: “Which what?” Driver: “How do you know which one is ... the time. Painful is different. In grad school, painful means a wrong ... it’s not me, maybe it’s the lab. He bailed. He is now WAY happier in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020