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  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you ... , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  . Sounds legit right? At this point, you might be curious as to how we ... . We learned how to use different tools and materials. We lost a ... Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel ... , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at LaVerdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  learned how to communicate scientific results and how to develop experiments ... This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend who's gotten pretty involved with MIT THINK. She asked me to let her

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  additional information: sign in, click the light green tab "how to APPLY" and ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  description: We learn how to code predictive models of biological processes ... this semester - we talk about prosthetics and implants, how to make 'em, why so many of them right now are crappy, and how to make better ones

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  fickle and annoying and COLD." I remember my parents jokingly asking me to ... knew it was going to be cold. I had packed my tried-and-true winter gear ... to Simmons after hosting my radio show at 2:30 AM - I don't think I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  contributing to that feeling, and how I feel about any of them. You have to keep ... with no clear warning? How much do I have to tell [annotation note ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  to sleep. i remembered how much i loved airports and hated flying. my ... . how do you know when to pause working? with problem sets, i'd stop in ... . i told a coworker that i don't know how to manage a work-life balance

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... HATE HOW THIS IS NORMAL. HOW WE KNOW WHAT TO DO. HOW THIS IS JUST LIFE ... , and part of me feels this is how someone wants things to be. Just… get

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  .04 was how useful it can be to have good people to work with. 4. 5 ... how much space I personally need to be able to think clearly and write ... . we first came up with a rough plan of how we wanted to spend our budget

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are ... break will all be online. We've been instructed to move out, packing as if ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always ... superglued to my finger once***. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve met ... come to an end. But let’s not dwell on the past. I’m with spring semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  not available. We will reach out to these students with instructions on how to submit their latest grades.]     Hi Everyone, The ... yet – you need to read some important info below. What is it?  The

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  , realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... happened to Jon '11. So, "critical point," how does that fit in? It seems ... explain how to solve: Practice Exam 1, Problem 8. c) I welcome an e

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... . And it's all free, from the airfare to the hotel to the sunset walk on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  pieces, and how drawing connects to everything. From 7 to 10pm, the class ... being drawn. How does the angle of the eyebrow compare to the angle at ... mouth now sit? How does the nose size compare to the eye, but also the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  I know -- I know how to theoretically gene-edit things with plasmids ... learning how to make your slides something other than sans-serif black text ... Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  realize how foreign that sounded even to me just two weeks ago. it was a ... me five minutes to collect everything i'll need to explain to you how ... weeks, i think i know how to do this task. 5:30 PM after some finagling

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019