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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of ... hiring at the time. After throwing my resume at company after company, I ... qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  As you may or may not know, my job this summer is turning turkeys ... H, buffer concentration, and residence time to see if we can prevent the Maillard reaction. Over the past year, my job has involved everything from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle ... ," I said. "I hadn't even turned eighteen, at the time. I was talking to ... vertigo I've had checked out. The last time I've been to a physician of any

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  time that would be comparable to what I’m feeling now would be when I was ... , and cosmic magic. Part of the team trying to send humans back to the ... look like. Part of a community nonprofit, working to help energize and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  have a good time. These past weeks have been incredibly hazy for me. It ... incredibly at peace, for the first time in a long, long time. Even though my ... time to find myself. I've felt a certain kind of pressure to do something

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  time? — but I love the process of writing a first draft. The world is as ... , admiring all the trees. For the past two years, I’ve spent more time away ... ’t sound easy to balance two jobs in which people are famously overworked and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  even this winter break have been so, so busy between the job hunt from ... .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in ...   Retaking the GRE ten days ago (and doing a little better than the first time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  A month and a half ago, I posted the first part of my series ... drafting 2 weeks ago. At which time I wrote the following before I gave up ... nailed a back handspring first time since high school; I can flip

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker ... front of the house. i think that was the first time in five months that i ... the only times i went outside were for getting food or getting tested

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... recruit, early and aggressively, especially around the time of MIT career fairs. One nice part about this year's career fair is that we do get the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  internships and full-time jobs. I was able to work on my resume—of course, MIT ... , right? I get tons of e-mails with the header “eecs-jobs”, all of them ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  from part-time work; I had nowhere to be, and yet here I was, wide awake ... change I accepted, even grew to love, for a time. Even at a Freshman ... very least, the roads. Each time, I winced at the effort I'd need to put

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every ... ’m normally heading out. Sleeping is a big part of that—how can I feel normal if ... , shooing off passing thoughts. I will not visit the New York Times Live

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  ); probably won’t get there by the time I leave. So the purpose of the campaign ... summer adventures take place. **Some parts were modified for clarity

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . Because for the first time in our lives perhaps, there is very little ... such a vulnerable frame of time in which everything seems possible, still ... technical, or on the other extreme, get a stellar job with stellar pay. It

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  have been a part of throughout my time there. I have not enjoyed ... This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... . I don't really know how I feel about this. I had a hard time sitting ... setting; at the same time, I don't know how much chaos is too much chaos

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  my time off MIT campus and am only 3 units above the credit cutoff to be considered a full-time student. I'm busy, but also happier than I ... time I've dropped a class at MIT because 1) the amount of information

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  job interesting. However, I once did answer a question like the A/Foo vs ... don't believe this -- often times people will accuse me of lying, that ... -- that's Daniel's job (and he's darn good at it!). We would like more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  ) By the time we had completed the intense a capella practice and rap ... time I’d gone since the warm and carefree Pre-Orientation days) to see ... three-part gory murder mystery to depictions of animal’s private lives

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014