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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find ... !  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... some clever trick, but the truth is that I just invested a lot of time

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved ... job. Then I got the grade. Not what I expected. Stunned, I skimmed ... slapped. The first sentence: "A good job, but there are issues you might

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  of times I've mansplained something stupid and niche to you like Twitch ... fucking forever but every time I try to start I kind of tear up and get ... every single time because I know I can always, always trust your judgment

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  , get a job. Whether it's a UROP or work-study or some part-time job on ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... over one bad pset. But at the same time... 2. Don't abuse PNR. PNR is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  the goddamn loveliest melody How grateful I was then to be part of the ... the communities I've been a part of have been there to provide love and ... shock. And hearing this song, I realized that the good times of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  finding jobs that you enjoy and which want to hire you is supposed to be ... figured out, part of me is happy for them and part of me is jealous, and part of me understands that the extent to which other people are put

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  class from 9 units to 15 because it's not a low time commitment class. Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design ... then just make it, market it, and sell it. Awesomeness! 2) I got a job

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  more time at MIT). I don’t think I did a very good job of building these ... freshman year actively avoiding thoughts of Real Life. Jobs, internships ... early finish; I’d really like to have more time to focus more on classes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  work even a part-time summer job and then find a way to work a couple ... variable, part of people's budgets. Although students on [annotation note ... manage their time to grocery shop and cook, or pay for take-out meals

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  ), the exhibit does a really good job of pacing the paintings and providing ... ="104068" /] Monet is my favorite painter of all time (I would decorate my entire house ... into the Monet room for too long and just stared. My favorite part is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  a personal time capsule, immortalizing all my worries and hopes from ... -fi so I could take video calls for my new job (which I had already started ... are just a part of growing up. And it's somewhere that I thought I would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  times so students can come in after their full-time commitments. 42 is a ... director of pedagogy in a school with no teachers, Lou’s job is to make new ... ” and not “sink,” you can become a part of something great. The kinds of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  cofound what was, for a time, the largest Harry Potter fanfiction community ... , who at the time was a professor at MIT. He wanted to interview me for his book Convergence Culture. That was the first time I ever thought of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  this time :) This is a guest blog from Jia '11, who's the Public ... part of my MIT experience has defined my views about service and ... crazy dance icebreaker. I had the time of my life getting to know other

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  have overdrafted many times, but I came dangerously close at least every ... . However, tracking expenses does take mental space and time to sit down and ... , but that might save you manual input time) What benefits are there to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  do in your free time? I spent most of my time making things in the ... always appears to be! Do you think the show did a good job of capturing ... , and academics alike. I think they did a phenomenal job at showcasing the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  , Senior Lecturer Peter Dourmashkin puts forth extra time and effort to make ... -3 & 18(Mathematics), freshman classes have an interesting job in ... .02 has the important job of expanding the relatively new concept of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  allowed? One time, in my sophomore year, there was a blogger meeting where I ... braindump-type posts that mainly waxed poetic about my time at MIT, both good ... situationship I was in at the time and my mom was so mad at me for using my last

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  't have Space Bags to help me clean up this mess. Too many time commitments and not enough time??? TOO MANY TIME COMMITMENTS AND NOT ENOUGH TIME ... done this to herself? I entered MIT with a job, a web-based research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... fessed up. I discovered that gouda is delicious. I remember my first time ... submerged in water. I remember my first time shooting a pistol. I sucked. I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015