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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty commute - my ... pass the time ended up being a 2000+ word stream-of-consciousness. So I ... short time, and you'll appreciate having a time capsule to look back upon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... . But that's okay, since that extra time would have been spent in class

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  to offer and time management, all while doing a good job. It ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... times were probably in their rooms behind closed doors, waiting for the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is the last part. Each part is roughly as long as this blog post ... committere, which has evolved meanings over time, from "consign someone to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  UROP or a job. Those are tricky to balance. Which UROP will accept the ... schedule meant I could obtain more money-yielding jobs. I added 1 to see how ... signals to my body. Dangerously low. Lower. Gone. Time to find a charging

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  that it's my job to tell you about MIT, the things I do here (or don't do ... professor or faculty member who helps you to manage your schedule, get a job ... make the time commitment to them, as I'm taking (what I consider to be

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading ... senior spring and think about not having a job after graduation. I really ... graduation I could always go home, spend time with the fam, and keep searching

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... , an enzyme whose job it is to stick pieces of DNA together. 45 min, room ... think sounds really intriguing. One time, I wanted to know what autolyzed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  words, such as Things #1, #35, and #50, have gotten me through hard times ... . Once you’ve stayed up with someone till 7am, multiple times, just talking ... museums at the time of the night when few tourists were out and the city got

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  ."]few exemptions.[/annotation]  These changes aren’t made lightly; parts of these ... : I’ve spent a long time at MIT thinking about education, both through ... ’t mean that our job was done; because our policy impacted MIT’s Rules and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... department tells me all the time that physics is hard for him, so he routinely ... the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  most equally down-to-earth and inspiring people I have met during my time ... blogger himself during his time at MIT!!! How cool is that? You all should ... advice, puzzle hunt archives and artifacts of his time as an undergrad (and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  in the lab full-time doing research. Eventually I'll finish the ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... 'm at MIT two or three times a week, coaching the cheerleading squad. When

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  's the first fiction class I've taken in a long time, maybe even since ... page story, and other times they're as specific as "Write a four ... Morocco" every time he says anything. "How many times have you seen that 'I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  has grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins, and parents who are part ... join this sorority, at the time, the Cambridge chapter had become ... provided her with the additional reassurance that taking part in Black Greek

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  'm excited to learn, and until I start my full time job in June, I'll be a ... now, and I can affirm that the only parts that I truly feel confident in ... section is the most important part of the paper...well, you're right, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in ... there worth it? Am I doing a good job of being a good person, of being a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Application Forms Financial Aid Foreign Applicants One of my favorite parts ... European History and World Cultures. The tests may be taken at any time and any number of times but should be completed not later than January of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  college as part of a larger project of intellectual discovery and ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  becoming less and less invested in classes during her time at MIT. I'm not ... consciousness, subjective stuff that isn't truth the way other parts of ... do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016