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  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  advisor at the beginning of the semester and have them approve your course ... a group of people living in the same place would all have the same ... before the school year starts, they publish a whole long list of advising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  runs. Calendar: Hello, readers! Anyway, it's the beginning of the new ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see ya next year"), so I sort of just wandered around and chatted with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... , lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of ... sympathetic to both. I was suddenly very conscious of the fact that I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  MIT's regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline ... perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school forms (teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of ... small breather of vacation time between reading Early and Regular applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... awake because of content. 11am - noon Next is biochem II (5.08). It's co

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of ... computer, start watching an episode from the fifth season of Scrubs. Decide

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right ... , Texas has a strong presence of different political views across the board ... -out but it is true okay']answer:[/annotation] people, lots of them. I can

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... . Snively said: The beads are so confusing!!! Ha! I wish I had a good video of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  people who you always think of by both first and last name all the time? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at all my first year of MIT. I had made promises to earlier, but never ... . I wanted to document my first week of "actual cooking", showing you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  This past weekend was a 3 day weekend because of President's Day ... ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good ... knew that this was the chance of a lifetime, that there would never be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  experience is mostly with pumpkin patches, but I have also spent many hours of ... . Here is the moment that I achieved my dream of IRL own-picking: [caption ... to pick half a peck of apples, a hayride, a bottle of cold apple cider

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  , so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass ... skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my ... past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in ... enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... , and the results of any research or analysis using the data will be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018