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• 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 ... with time, but, regardless, this is a good tool to employ. Get a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • 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 / 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
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  lot of time on my UROP this semester. It involves making a game in Unity ... lot of time so that I can finish it and hopefully have kids playing it ... Campus CPW Chair: I'm finally part of the East Campus swamp (a vaguely self

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  needing to eventually find a real job and about knowing what I want to do. I ... ’m already looking for a job! Anyway, my classes are a lot of the reason I am ... asked before the night before the pset is due. The other part of this

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• 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 / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended ... Carnegie. I digress. 8:45am, Elements Cafe: Arrive from the 71C bus in time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I ... what I’ve been trained to do. Every time I wanted to take a hard science ... times I have almost deleted this, or considered re-phrasing so that the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  only television show for which I consistently made the time. It was a ... and fellow alum Dara) in part so I could editorialize on current events ... William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, in large part because I'd read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... ? My job. My job is very much not boring and I think you'll agree. I ... minutes of my time for your trouble. I hesitated a bit when considering

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  "Great, we have a time keeper! Do you have a watch with a second hand?" Uh ... hand by Mason '10 and was all set. I was teamed up with an associate time-keeper. Her job was to sit up front near the speaker and turn her cell phone up

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  my time off, I started wondering what made James tick. And why I didn ... bright, motivated doctors in the world have never taken serious time off ... job. My first few inquiries were utterly unsuccessful. My parents

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  . "Rush" is what we call REX, or Residence Exploration, the time when all ... because we’re waiting on parts. Today’s tasks are the Merry-Go-Death and the ... think. Me: I will. And I had my job for the day. My first order of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  attending training sessions for my term-time campus job, which is relevant ... everyone hated her. Now the sad part was Libby dying, but I hear she had ... the coolest boyfriend ever. Mollie said: Wait, where's the part where

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and ... of the kind that happens all the time. I am naïve, I am foolish, but

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note ... job in tech,[/annotation] the transition into doing fabrication (with some other things thrown in here and there) full-time wasn't extremely

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019