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  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  being on the fencing team to more general "time management tips ... out your hair while doing PSets? It's a good thing that my very job for ... different prefrosh before heading out. I had a fun time, and I definitely look

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  make if this was my full-time job, I got a lot less excited," Srivastava ... done the math and concluded that beating the game wasn’t worth my time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  downsides. I think this comic does a great job summarizing: ___ ___ You ... good time laughing at it. It began something like: This was the second ... incident seem funny, but over time they can get really annoying and sometimes

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  have drastically different ways of spending their precious "spare" time ... Starting my summer job search Yeah, it's a lot for one week - although ... time this week. As for me, I'm going to go back to studying x

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... wall Time: 11:15 PM 10/12/2005 Hi Ken, I just got back from my desk ... . You rock, Dean Larry. Don't ever change your job.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  ; long time blog readers may remember that last year around this time, I ... a question about MIT alumni helping MIT students get jobs. I've also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  through our cheers a few times and warming up stunts, we went to the Z ... ahead of time. The MIT Engineers were playing Massachusetts Maritime ... did a great job, even playing an impromptu (and perhaps improvised

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  little patience or tolerance for anything that wasted his time. Whenever he ... Ben Jones did a terrific job handling my light work. Instead, let's spend this time examining the lesser-discussed problems of these surveys

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Name: Mari McQuaid Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions ... destroying) cool things, crazy but strangely compelling stuff like the Time ... time in Cambridge where I can always find: interesting people who share

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... got my job. The summer before my sophomore year, I emailed about ten ... took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  , and even [annotation note="But I’ll save that story for another time..."]laser-etched wooden challenge coins.[/annotation] A major part of being a designer of ... getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... daunting if occasionally, my managers or investors were female, too. Part of ... prefer more flexible jobs. The primary reason women have more gaps in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  different that I’m going to tell it anyways. As part of the MIT PE requirement ... practiced landing twice, once in each role. Then, it was time to go out solo. Webb went first, did a fantastic job, and then, there was no avoiding it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason ... students: voc techs will often fix your cars at the cost of the parts, saving ... exhaust manifold, and the timing belt, which should've been replaced 50

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  hear it all the time from MIT alumni (I work as a techcaller yipee ... out, but luckily, you can always switch jobs and that it is worth it to ... image1="96981" image2="96979" image3="96975" /] But spending lots of time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  contributed by painting the solid parts. Our final touch was to splatter paint ... - I think we did a pretty good job! That’s the story behind my door ... , when I moved onto 41W as part of a small group of Senior Haus expats. It

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet ... different places on the blog. It's been a pretty important part of my life for ... boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  school to learn; as a full-time student, my job is to take classes and ... isn't only space, but also time. When I think about the thousands and ... about it. Half the time, I felt genuinely excited working on the project

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  class i'm a lab assistant for. it was more time than i expected to spend ... weekend, i knew i'd spend a lot of time on the hunt, and i was really prepared to spend my whole weekend on it. and yeah, i had an awesome time. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... the best parts about being a member of SaveTFP is just seeing the number

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016