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  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  opportunity that connects current MIT students to do work at companies that MIT alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  . No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... not finishing it. I had nothing. When I went to give my presentation in ... January you can take classes, work on personal projects, do UROPs, or just

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  , it's not the sheer difficulty of the work that poses a problem for ... , particularly where I live... I have not known boredom since moving here. There ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  unfair mindset and not entirely true. I’ve done meaningful work throughout ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school ... personal schedule for myself and started working on my first task.  Roughly

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... you working on? What does your startup do?" "We uh... .... we're a ... everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  . VI-A (Pronounced "six A", not "via") is a program in course 6 (MIT's name for its EECS department) lets students work at companies and use that work as material for a Master's thesis. The companies can be right

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... elsewhere, I have stayed as a civil engineer throughout my career, working on ... interviews, or sometimes just casually at work, my time at MIT still comes up

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  the West Coast, my boss would say, 'It's not about working hard, it's about working smart. Go home and have a life.' If not for that, there'd be ... order something, then walks up to the man working the register, throws his

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note ... work together. *** Smart cookie (or, doing well) So you grow up "gifted ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not ... progress, creates a ceiling of satisfaction for working women that they can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  and model it. Because, well, why not? SolidWorks is basically a video ... making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few projects too--the Design/Build/Fly team is working towards competition day in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  's not always the same as working hard. Take breaks. Remember, work smart ... I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... phrased in a different way: If it looks stupid, but it works, it ain

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  when I'm here, I feel deprived if I'm not getting at least 9). But ... Swiss Institute of Technology). I'm working at the Brain Mind Institute ... Project in its scope and usefulness, and I feel honored to be working on it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  working on each decision: which students will be admitted, which will be ... will be sent via postal mail. We will not be releasing decisions on the ... how things are looking here. Admitting a class is hard work, full of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  living alone, if you are not on the meal plan you have to make your own food, you now have the decision to go to class or not go to class, you ... disclaimer, I am still a freshman and I am not claiming to know everything

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some ... (hopefully) proud of me. But, it's definitely not what she would've imagined it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  2015. On November 29, it means: Yeah. I...I'm not gonna work out. On ... do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study for it but it's not working very well >____< But it's ok. Judging

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  great, if not THE great living glass blower, Lino Tagliapietra, is working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010