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  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's time to apply it to... How your screen displays lots of different colors ... molecules do a perfect job: they rotate the light wave 90 degrees, so that all ... , the molecules do a half-hearted job; they orient themselves in such a way that the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  standard of attentive, empathetic, holistic review, taking as much time as needed to get the job done right.   It was an incredible amount of work ... so much time speaking with so many students. Nor would it have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  day jobs. This summer, as in January, I've perched myself atop the flat ... a desk job at the BNSF Railway's national operations center, working ... ,000-mile railroad.) I thought that, as part of today's underappreciated

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  system. During down time, he was able to use this super stereo to listen to ... a job. Vivek had had a UROP before, when he worked with Prof. Kate Scholberg, now at Duke, doing particle-physics simulations. As part of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  League of First Robotics, then you’ve taken part in a piece of MIT history ... .  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... assignments a week to keep up with. I did not do a very good job of keeping up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  now. i am doing better now, right? and at the time it was fine, but the ... , good job at disappearing two weeks before my appointments and then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Required reading (from folks who are better writers than me): Ben Jones: It's More Than A Job Marilee Jones: Sending You My Best Also ... number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  Contemporary Society: Drawing in part from their own interests and ideas ... media, ranging from New York Times stories to Twitter feeds. Provides ... I was going to graduate in any reasonable time, and in which degree

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  worse job? Wouldn't that be better? Today, I am proud to introduce to you ... further consideration, I have decided not to quit my day job ... 've decided that it's time for me to go back to my roots. no drawing could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  part of a special program for undergraduates in physical chemistry ... gives me free housing; browsing for UROPs; and having a good time. Right ... experiment that will test whether or not the parts of the brain used for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  and working [annotation note="one UROP and one job, technically"]two jobs[/annotation] remotely. Here's what my day looked like. 8:57 AM I ... and enjoy feeling useful. I haven't ever had a job where I feel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  ’s what i see every time i look at the world. everywhere i look, i see the ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  presentation on a fan experience of mine and I was able to reflect on my time as ... up the presentation, there was a part of me that ached for that same ... always felt torn between these two parts of myself. There was a side of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... ’s not a one-time decision.  These days, I instead regularly ask, “What do

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... is that I was trending one time on Twitter (lol). Did you know that

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  enough challenges in life or in academics and would cave the first time I ... preparation. It's a (well-paying) job that uses my major, even! I really want to ... definitely times when I'd liked to have gone to one of those panels and seen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started ... friends and classes in common.  Time changes people, and priorities. Indeed

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Admitted A forum.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2015! Good job! Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  white water phenomenon all the time- when no one's used the slide for 15 ... : Many colleges let students pay for part of their tuition through on-campus jobs. Does MIT have any interesting jobs of this nature (such as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006