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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... "job" -- yes, a fun one at that, but a job nonetheless. And others don

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  later part of the class. Taking it a second time helped me get a lot more ... learning with the MIT Glass Lab, and I had an absolutely amazing time. Here ... class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  room table on most days. she takes a lot of calls as part of her job ... [/annotation] who work for the Admissions Office. I applied around this time in 2015 ... activity, like a job, anything else feels off. Now of course, work is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  most time-intensive part of the application process, largely because it ... good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that ... on that besides don't waste your time on a liberal arts degree and you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to ... , i spend the entire time grinding out psets (specifically, finishing up ... "]applying to jobs[/annotation] and [annotation note="which is really what i want

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  in was the insane amount of stress and time that goes into The Job Hunt ... DIII Tournament, which is pretty cool because it's the second time ever ... Undergraduate Research The sad part is, as much as I try to deny it, I think I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  course, I am still stressing big-time about the GRE subject test. Stupid ... also reminds me of the time I tried to track my caffeine intake vs. sleep ... . Mike asked how much time I spend on homework each week, and if it would

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  angle" graphene.']Head of House,[/annotation]who'd been a part of my time ... part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to ... easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  that detects faces. Raymond CADed the parts up and they used Emma's 3D printer to print out all the parts. [carousel image1="60227" image2 ... work with Aiden and Raymond on Battlecode, an AI real-time strategy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  about how we can use data and technology for social good for some time. I ... . I'm also thrilled to be part of DUSP's new urban science major (Course ... time, I embrace ideas of participatory design and co-design where you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester ... a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... what I was getting myself into at the time. You see, back when I arrived ... indebted), also offered me a summer job to keep working on the site and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  establishing and operating the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, a community ... ://igem.org/About ) More specifically, I work on the tissue culture (TC)/ transfection part ... design her experiments and now she is a pro! Good job to all my baby bears

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  -deathmatch style, minus the cage and death parts. 6.470 finals are pretty boring in ... to give jobs to. I've spent the past two IAPs doing internships for ... as our scrawny nerd bodies at the time. I am too tired to keep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  part of building this community, and I'm really, really going to miss ... ? The last time I wrote, our office had just received some really bad news ... .) This year was Stanford's turn to host, and they did an amazing job - big

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  As Sam Cooke once said, "It's been a long time coming but I know a change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... Cervantes. These super-dedicated students take time out of their busy

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  parts. I loved the camaraderie of people all grinding to finish their part ... having a complex system in my head, understanding one part of the puzzle so ... public a LOT of times: for MIT Monologues, where I wrote and memorized an 8

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  ’ve done a pretty bang-up job. We’ve got TONS of fun and interesting events ... … except for me. Other friend groups would talk about FaceTiming each other ... me about 10% of the time, and when it did it felt great! Keeping up

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  them, but I almost never do.  Well, what’s a better time than now? Since ... insects preserved in amber. I. For the first time since May, I walked alongside the Charles River. I’ve done it more than a dozen other times, each

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021