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• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  time, we read applications as they become complete, and we don't stop ... night/weekend work is expected from October to April. In return, your job is more than a job. That's the tradeoff every admissions professional

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on ... calculus you need to know for that class is integration by parts. Sure, it ... 'd like some extra time in your schedule to explore major options and did

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  trail runs and more like 16-20 miles). Full time job, two kids under 5 ... 'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party ... shut down by the police live on stream. That time I accidentally

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  either part time fashionistas or worked in the legal department. All in all ... York Times, which at one point made me use so much Rails I had dreams ... Times was not at all what I expected, but everything I could've hoped for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  Hey, blogs. How ya doing? Long time no see... Or, I guess, write ... . I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the You ... of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  through being the chef. It's the chef's job to 1. Come up with a menu, which ... house in time for the cooking day. 3. Show up on the day, and ensure that all the dishes are cooked and served on time. I cheffed two Fridays ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  with my time afterwards. I could have a cushy tech job and not have to ... This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a ... expected. I think some part of it is because I really like Seattle, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job ... year I had applied to be a counselor, but I landed the job of AD. My boss ... Diva.” 617) Being AD means that any time any of the 77 students or any

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a tissue engineering UROP, explored new parts of Boston, and ate only at ... perhaps some part of me that wanted more from life than just being

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  a hard time saying through words can be said through my Big Rock ... . So I try to turn to the thing that usually does a good job of making me ... cheaply. To encourage more undergrads to take part (it's disproportionally

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  seminars to attend. It all takes time. That's part of the reason I dropped 6 ... Thinking and Data Science"]6.0002.[/annotation]By the time I realized it, it ... for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  the price of the education. You’ll be a part of a unique community of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  job without a lot of clear constraints or boundaries, and it also varies ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I've gotten pretty good at it over time. Most importantly, however, to break the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  -deprived, doing this is one of my favorite parts of the day. If I have time, I ... as graduation and my entry into the full-time job market approaches, I ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  about it somewhere a long time ago. However, I am NOT recycling material ... dude!". Now thats out of the way let me move on. Great job with the floor ... just want to say, "Job well done!". Now only one question remains. So

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  little noble and important. I wasn't super sold on the engineering part ... about what actual jobs look like"]dissecting mice or using X-rays or ... heavily considered 6-7, but with more and more time to ruminate over the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  laser cutter to print my job. It took a bit of time, and I remember that I ... DO NOT put your hand inside the laser cutter. The second part of the ... it ourselves (due to time constraints), so they gave us a choice of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  make some big changes in 2020: find a new job/switch careers, move ... professional disappointment, my husband’s perceived job security, my anxiety over ... coaster of emotions. I was going to plow ahead with my job search with undue

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  to get ahead on the jobs game, do my UROP project part time, and also ... successfully have a whole other part time job on top of a full time internship. I ... have many responsibilities. My UROP was my full time job, and the only

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... figured it was time, so here you go! I've mentioned multiple times that I ... different jobs this summer but I definitely decided on the coolest job ever. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009