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• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  worked, I went to coffee shops, not the libraries. That visit was shorter ... knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding big choices. Unlike many skills, there's not opportunities to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  in the thermodynamics units, always finding the work to be fairly easy and not painful to do. Having to sit down and listen to thermodynamics ... and LinkedIn, but not relative to most people or college freshman

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I have changed and not changed since that night. I thought about what ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... am not cool. Go to class; it is not cool to look like you're not trying

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... '09, Gabe '11. Not shown: Shion '12. Brandi trying hard not to be famous to the prefrosh Also shown: This picture trying hard not to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  thing MIT did”, or “This is what MIT looks like”. This is not that blog. I ... these blogs, does not. So for Mom V. (<3), here’s a crash course ... (pretend the fancy Fitbit only tracks speed, not distance). Taking the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for ... information about how our process worked, sure, but also as importantly, I ... the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  'm hunched over my computer trying to finish my work as I mumble, sounding half ... breakfast, sat through the opening ceremony, and decided that we were not ... morning. We started setting up -- we wanted to work on a Bacon number

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... my online school experience. I spent a lot of time working on my final ... Saturday, which is usually the day I dedicate to doing pretty much 0 work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  outside. Yes, you might not be able to feel your face or fingers. But you ... a lot of work that was half done but due later that day. The buses ... hussling it took to get out of the house. Everything worked out fine. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  few months to finish up work on some papers, and started my postdoctoral ... development, but I’ve switched model organisms — I work with human brains now ... ’re keeping track, my postdoc at Children’s means I’ve done lab work at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... go, you are probably all set for most of life. What if I’m not ... one of the Global Teaching Labs anyway. Sure, teaching is a lot of work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  sleep was not entirely forgone and no meals were skipped (I fail to see ... had a lot more work than usual. As a freshman, I don’t think I ... work. They make no efforts to spare the gory details. In comparison, my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  feel like they should blog." I completely disagree. I work desk when I ... , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  ) posting it when I had no wireless. Not cool, Sam. Actually I went out for ... because I was learning about the people I was working with. The phrase "My ... words mean nothing about those last seven days when I worked from 9 AM to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... city to city across the country, visiting all the companies doing work on ... people doing work on computers and they would talk to me, give me their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  clearly failed. So, help me educate those who are unfortunate enough to not ... unlike any other school in the world. As a freshman, you can work in the ... cool kids do... that'll get their attention. Afterwards, I worked at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  looked so interesting. And that's not to say it doesn't now. I'm just ... of transport. The actual work of the assignment was pretty simple, but ... -- as there's more usable time onboard a train. I can get work done for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  , go home, go abroad, train, work, come to campus and chill, come to campus and NOT chill… for every friend i have whose IAP itinerary somewhat ... meters…not very american), which is a little under a foot under my high

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  thought I was travelling to Europe. I did not understand why, until I sat ... rush. At CPW, everyone seemed to be working on something, and that may have swayed me toward MIT, but access to research was not the deciding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021