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• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  another elaborate drawing like the one you were up all night doing, why not ... -type figure” and maybe not someone you want giving you advice. My 18-yr-old just ... myself from being such a mom and work on leaving the room. But I actually

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  the actual assignment, so I think I'm in the clear. NOT. Do your work ... were mean.) Figure out when you work best. I'm a morning person and have ... fell asleep at nine. So when I have a lot of work to do and don't feel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay so many times that, by submission time, it did not even make sense ... college essay is personal. It’s not English class anymore. Let loose your ... plenty topics and stories you can choose. Most of them work. But there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and sophomore year I worked in the Aerospace Controls Labratory (ACL) and currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous. Today I'm here to answer those questions! (Spoiler alert: we're not really ... , but I guess that's not saying much :P Some bloggers end up putting up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  ’m not yet, but working on it). i must adopt a bias towards action and be ... mandatory eg. working through the material for classes i’m not in or ideating ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  she works for this company was the people. Not only should we as interns ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in ... to what I was going to do and I was fearful of not being able to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of ... shot. Here goes. Look, we're not saying you should drop or hide all of ... formal and informal studies, balance between work and play, balance between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  , you want to work at Disney, you’re not going to do it in Minneapolis ... film that you might not have worked on that really stands out to you ... met in grade school, and it was just not working, it wouldn’t work. We

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  based on her thesis work. It had not been published yet, and I understood ... , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  note="please do not actually attempt at home"]Because you should ... date and I have not been able to bring myself to watch it but now I will ... worked vaguely in bioengineering and his research sounded cool. "Let me

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... tablet work a charm. The six tips were all textured differently to give you ... ’s just not as fun once you get a taste of digital art, and you realize that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  didn’t stop academically. I took online classes, and then I worked on ... go places to work online. That being said, it is doable. It is ... application season did not come from this large number of things to balance, but

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  remember we called all operators that way--"sin," "cos" ("cohs," not "cahs ... Spammy, I'm really hungry, not gonna lie. Make me dinner, Spammy." And ... ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  about how i can be the best fit given the context i am in. i'm not working ... , which has a beautiful music video. i'm not a fan of psychological horror ... 't call everything a feel good game. i'm working on my first large code

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the ... practical and theoretical devices. Perhaps you did not know that lists are ... items loosely joined not by logic or power or use but by the gentle knot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  't?"]i don't want to work somewhere[/annotation] where saying "i'm not sure" is ... to, liked me. and it's probably not going to be the case that i work ... that's why i have not been posting at my weekly rate asdfgj. anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let's go ... /her life" doesn't work. Of course, if you have the right amount of ... entire summer by finding all of this very, very amusing. Plus I work with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  Laverde's all the time. I'll be continuing to work in my undergrad lab full ... work I've been doing for the past year and a half. I'll be graduating ... month of August off... sort of. I am not so good at the "do nothing" thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... don't really remember focusing too much during work; I kinda ambled ... 17 trips to the coffee machine. After work finally ended, I met up

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005