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

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... (you were always on time, weren't you?)(That's okay, I wasn't). In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  , standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and can't help but ... rest of the essay? do I really need it?" Can you post your essay? In ... I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s not acute. I haven’t shouted in the courtyard in frustration. I haven ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
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  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... that doesn't inspire you. You can contribute to the world as a woman in ... with optimism. Nostalgia can be deceptive, so remember to live in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  50 Reflections

  

  . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... inspiring. I remember thinking: in 2004, the greatest technology school in the ... to be a sounding board and copilot in those years. Matt and I also

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the ... break, Erin and I came in every day and pounded out code until the motors

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so ... 're racing around in the dark (more all-nighters and late-nights you can ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  call, or maybe even in person in the distant future. I can hear the ... is gone, in the past, and I can’t reasonably expect to return to square ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• 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.

  

  -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... , biology, and mathematics—and I’ve also had to take courses in physics and ... the very start I wrote with the dual purpose of turning in and posting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  the Green Building flicker in your peripheral vision. You can’t tell if ... Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Admissions office. Hmmmmm, I write for a website that prospective students read ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is ... get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams ... -jokes. One thing I love about the past two Hunts were the registration websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... I was in third grade when those students were running around MIT), and ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
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  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  the thing I'm designing on my screen can actually be manufactured in ... ? Maybe we can use PWM. I learned that in [annotation note="Dynamics and ... filling in the gaps, I’ve built something incredible: a foundation. I can

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had ... Southern Hemisphere, I read Mihir Desai’s op-ed in the Harvard Crimson, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... temp. 9:45 AM. I am putting the DNAs back in my box when I discover that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... -nighters in studio. Linguistics major? Other research areas excited me more. I had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015