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  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years ... attach a resume. I'd recommend e-mailing a LOT of researchers and starting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers ... letters of recommendation, I'll tell you that you can help your recommenders ... letters, I can try to address them in the comments below. But my main point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  designs and begun development of our final design. I can't say much more ... . But one of the things I learned to do in Design/Build/Fly was soldering ... . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... I can use are[annotation note="PyMOL is a play-on of the words Python ... research fields and don't involve a lot of coding in my experience. I picked

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  weekends either. I kind of feel like I’m back at MIT in that regard. Part of ... taking care of myself right now in this moment. So, here’s a few ways I ... I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... projects is not the direction that I saw my life going in - I was sort of ... . In retrospect, though, I think that the evolution of my reflections

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  people the benefit of the doubt, as I'm sure we did in your case. hedwig ... admissions in various publications over the years, one of which I believe your ... of my US citizenship. I have tried best I can not to overstate the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to ... 't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  ." the 2018s were all in your place last year. i spent the whole of ... Dear Applicant, it’s 3:14 am, and i'm sitting in a smoky kitchen ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  they used). in june, i came around, mostly because some of my very best ... in my feelings all the time (like i'm sure lots of us have been for the ... in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  material in their classes. Suddenly, you fall into a spiral of “how do i even ... to shed those worries as soon as I was in front of a classroom. My ... . A friend of mine came in to borrow a whiteboard marker, and I gave him

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  's neither here nor there. The rest of the week, I essentially just stayed in ... of campus besides me staying in my room all week, many of which I ... I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... in classes but it's something you really can't delve into until junior ... there in an environment where I could ask people detailed questions about

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with ... so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... -making and there's so much more happening that I wish I could participate in but can't because I'm home reading your applications. (It's okay, you

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  sits right in front of me? i am bored i am chewing on a mat, staring at ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... material enough i can’t wait for the semester to end this course is too damn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... were absolutely hilarious. Partly because I was participating in some of ... A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... difficult to remember, but i'm the type of person who can't not prepare for ... rehearsing dialogues in my head, which sucked. now, though, i kind of miss it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... entries between now and the end of the early action process, I plan to ... the nearest major research university to where I grew up, for some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004