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• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  and sophomore summers at MIT, and I’ve been a part of the coordinator ... decent and not-sketchy job of describing this; please feel free to question ... time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  up dropping my UROP--a story for another time--I started cooking. A lot ... 's like, "Nice! I have all this free time. I might as well start feeding myself actual food." I'd say that during the semesters, I do an okay job

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), which means I get to have an on-campus job doing cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I ... to post a long long time ago, regarding the epic IAP 2010 travels of ... too much involvement in the Philippines before, so it was our job to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat Mc ... board for a job opening as technical editor for the first computer ... about reading the book. I got the job. That summer he said, "Pat, I want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went ... thing I meant to write about a long time ago: At the end of this semester ... preparation, shall we say, sucked.) Question Time: 1. Although we're certainly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP ... , IAP is a really great time to start because you can work up to 40 hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  time. There's a lot less transience. Students truly feel that MIT is ... of time thinking about and working on things that will impact future ... beyond their own time here. Of course, as I indicated previously (and in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  job they get further ahead and are more satisfied at their job ... brother that destroys your things. Unhappiness is for the most part ... chronic. Maybe it’s because of passage of time, and accumulating many more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  a spectacular job at telling the many different stories of MIT as ... featured on the front page the New York Times, or that dozens (hundreds?) of ... 4640 posts have been viewed approximately 7.2 million unique times, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  will make it happen. I have almost filled all the parts; it is time to ... This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one, part two

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the ... stuck with four classes per semester for most of my time here: freshman ... of my time[2], so it felt like I was well above my usual course load

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  time, I flirted with the idea of majoring in History at some really ... " humanities programs than MIT does), when decision time came. Many people have ... and other events. For example, one of the best parts so far was meeting

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  time or face expulsion from The Midnight Society or whatever. So, with ... "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I ... research purposes. And maybe, by that time in my life, I'll be older and know

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer than both the places I stayed at this summer, even though those times

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  . Then we noticed a problem. We had made it in 2 parts to be bolted ... ’t just add another leg at the droopy part because that was supposed to be ... part, we still didn't trust the frame to hold up all the concrete blocks

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part competition, part exhibition, and 100% inspirational. This time around, both ... 's only a handful of rules behind it - things like scoring rules, time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  together a hybrid with the most important parts of each. By the time I was ... , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not ... incident. But by the time we were done, it was past 1 AM, so we had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005