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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  word about my job until mid-May.) "Be a camp counselor!" said Peach. "I ... summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  people choose to get jobs at companies over the summer, for several reasons ... job in industry, I'd recommend enrolling in the Freshman/Alumni Summer ... , and use MIT resources to find a job. As a sophomore, you can participate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  doing them and felt that they were the most helpful part of the course ... actually don't; namely, a good job, money, expensive things, a good body, and ... people tend to overestimate their unhappiness about not getting a job, as

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world ... ended up submitting a resume for a summer position. I got the job and spent the summer building action figures, assembling 3D printed parts

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I ... -black color at a time, ostensibly to show everyone I was hardcore but secretly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself ... friends found a new friend group that they began spending lots of time with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  grade...or the stress of finding a job amidst all this academic pressure ... ," was very reminiscent of that. here are my favorite parts of the ... . that part wasn't fun making bad decisions—like going on Omegle to tutor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  time to take in everything around me. For the most part, campus looked ... Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering intern! I was really happy that I finally had a job, and a chance acquire ... really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  liked my job but not enough liked making a lot of money but not enough ... that got me through life's hardest parts decided to go back to big school ... left my computer job and moved to rain city with a friend from computer

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  about going to MIT was that I wouldn't have the time to do as much ... do, and I think it's just so incredible how well they manage their time ... they take ridiculously hard classes and have jobs and everything.  They

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most ... comics. Can you imagine how much time that would take?) As far as I know, this is the first time comics class has been offered; up until this

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  . Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  something is much higher than simply hearing a no. If I invest time and energy into a job application, only to not get the job, that is time and energy ... company (this has happened a few times when I didn't perform well in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... I spent much of my time around first years, I found myself giving ... interests may (and probably will) evolve with time, but, regardless, this is a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  acquisition of another part-time job, a frenzy of costume-making, broccoli, the ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  , but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have ... : maybe I could get some posters of beaches and line the bottom part of the ... their heads into that room a few times over the past 2 years and were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  through junior high and high school. By the time I got to MIT, it was pretty ... software. This is where I came in. It was my job to make the necessary ... a mechanic, by the time I left I was making some real engineering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  find:  When I was interviewed as part of my application to MIT, my ... . “For a long time,” he said, “MIT has recruited people who are great at ... long and vast life is, yet at the same time, how fleetingly short and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... occurs all the time in humans as well. i’ve written about this idea before ... find more people they like). that you stop learning once you have a job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023