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  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in ... pumped up about going to schmooze with a bunch of companies who, I felt ...  me. After all, even if a company is only actively recruiting course 6 majors

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  arranges. It was with a professor in Course 1, which is Civil and ... teaching, in graphics design, and it would address what I think is a huge ... knew a third of the people in the room! Although I’m not sure if this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  is from a really good friend who grew up in Boston. (They do have the ... and my friends (one of whom is in TechX) had a meeting in there for a ... sticker above it is a picture of Simmons that I found in the Simmons Room of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  . Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former ... this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll.  Which MIT professor is your ... a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... 'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  's Wok and Noodle Diner for a birthday dinner. Betty's is right behind ... 't really need as Massachusetts had a tax-free holiday. Round #3 Sunday ... first secret is revealed So over the course of the day on Monday, a

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  like Black Diamond, who is based out of Salt Lake City a.k.a Park City UT ... people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , took a trip to Cape Cod, ate our weight in free food and got to raid one ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  , Sarab- Biology is typically a 10th grade course here in America (most ... for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in ... State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a ... whether a piece of writing is beautiful or not) is derived from that first

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  inspiring to see a guy from Miami who is Cuban―just like her―going to MIT ... who she thinks might be a good match based on the information she has ... is no doubt that WISE holds a special place in Daymé's and Asia

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  there’s a GRT in it with a lot of Canadian pride). The building is very ... or relationships, because in a community, one is not necessarily close ... life might have. MIT is different in a lot of ways from other schools

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... summer, I've kept my summer goals in a markdown file in a Github repo. This ... the years. Goal setting is a skill! Practice it! Work I never really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  people. That, in general, is a good strategy. Follow the cool people and ... matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar ... . And if I miss something, feel free to ask additional questions in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... day is a success.” “Sorta weave in worldbuilding as your protagonist ... , started designing a show-and-tell style fashion class. Drawn in by peer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  -Harry-Potter-related all-nighter (whoa that was a lot of hyphens!) Free sodas and coffees ... guide and decided to (try to) build a human pyramid in the middle of Lobby ... what they were building in the courtyard before we took a detour on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  runner. Admissions is a little like that. MIT wants the people who will ... final dorm, the in-house lottery occurs, which is a similar process in ... think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  to apply with the research abstract? Is there a competitive edge in ... : "How important is it to have a math class in your senior schedule? Our ... answered, though, I am more than happy to help. A few FAQs: The deadline is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... fire was in a vacant room, 408, that nobody was living in. So then they ... [/caption] A lot is redacted from this paragraph, but this is the first interview

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022