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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... research university. UROPs are technically a part of a larger [annotation

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  incidents at University of Missouri, though arguably MU’s incidents were more ... particular, the hunger strike of a graduate student at University of Missouri ... ) at MIT to show solidarity and support for the University of Missouri

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ), Chicago (Swapna '05), New York (Laura '06), and of course, lots of people in ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... New Yorkers are…well, probably deserving of an occasional punch or two

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... 2pm. You might be wondering at the moral of this story. Is it grades

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... people are often really scary, but important. I kept a list of new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  summer residents at tEp. The first house dinner was an exciting blur of new ... pleasant way, to see a ton of familiar faces from New House at tEp. It ... , experiences, ideas, and people. I found overwhelming amounts of those things at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  granddaughter of this girl I thought was really cute and our characters hugged at ... internship at Rutgers University, for which I pretty much functioned as a data ... should be made as often as possible (of course not to imply that I have at

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  was the dawning of a new century and a new era of mathematics. At the ... -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• 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 ... of getting into a selective university is a clear and validating ... universities would be the end of my comparisons. Earlier this summer I was

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

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Make a new group of friends. I was sure, at the time, that everyone I ... . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education ... of time and energy since I kept convincing myself I was bad at physics

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... her about her experience teaching at MIT (and overall career/life, of ... life (at university, 19-20 years old, thinks way too deeply about the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... from yourself. That feeling, that feeling of growth is a new one. And it ... ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I ... Japan, so I bought a copy of his new book when it came out. Unfortunately

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a ... should leave my apartment and buy a gallon of milk at the store across the ... apartment) is a choice too, excluding an infinity of possibilities at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... interning at Microsoft under their New Technologists program. And while the ... "New Techs". A lot of these sentiments are reflected in the interns in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . At the end of undergrad, I was deciding between going and working in ... class of cancer therapeutics worked. I’d say grad school at MIT is a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT). one of the requirements of this class is to notice something new every day. we are learning ... is a couplet that i'm proud of: "We’re at a party that’s not the right

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... the University of Washington, then become a software engineer. So, why

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021