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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  . I feel the itch to explore something else for a time, even if a part ... , writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started ... more times than I can count, whether by car or bus or plane or train. My

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  artists of all-time, not just for his incredible lyricism, production, and ... your college loans, stop worrying about what job they got waiting for you ... in Course 6, computer science. Often times you'll hear words like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  opportunities to spend time with friends, the "group" part of "friend group" can ... manufacture mischief opportunities to spend time together. So many ways to ... time. People talk a lot about how important your living group is to your

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  functioning work environment. The best part of my job was always working with ... job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  /or procrastinating. Just a few days ago, I beat my all-time record for cutting it close ... ’m efficient at my work, I can achieve quite a bit if I manage my time well. That ... times. Luckily I’ve caught the culprits for this issue. With the simple

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  into the laces but that'll wear off in time. MasteringPhysics.com is an online physics program that tacks more homework onto the lives of most ... strange times. 3) There are always a lot of assignments in each set. 4) Each

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  It's time for another Questions Omnibus... Mike wrote (re: MIT ... biggest concern right now is hot to get my recommendations to MIT in time ... time. How long should I wait to receive confirmation that my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• 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 / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  -ray this time) and onwards to China. When I got back to MIT at the beginning ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I ... hey, why not, and filled out the online application. For the in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• 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 / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  has an online system (and a Global Education and Career Development ... tell her I'm applying to jobs and grad school and hoping to find something cool to work on after graduation. She's between getting a job and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56 ... limit these instances. (Try to) wake up at the same time every day ... fact that you will be competing with your peers for the same jobs. Think

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... then. And though I still can't grow a decent beard, oh how the times have ... somehow managed to bluff his way into a real job, Facebook has hit the big

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I ... -black color at a time, ostensibly to show everyone I was hardcore but secretly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  deleted this post at least three times now. It's literally not even that ... keep telling myself. "How hard can it be?" But some part of myself still ... interests." The logical part of me knows that's probably the dumbest thing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  2012, so this is the first online community I have been a part of. The ... first online community. As members of the Awesome Socks Club, my friends ... about the polished successes, but the failures too, because those are part

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  - which I have been doing all four years of my time at MIT). From Ting, '13 ... not due to time constraints) From Ioana, '14, Bucharest, Romania I ... helicopter driver, though that would be a pretty amazing job). And I think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... Financial Aid Office at 617-253-4971. Every time I've called during business ... Engineering) to 20. But closing off majors really isn't part of MIT's culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 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 / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  summer I am being awesome. Luckily, in addition to this full-time job, my ... rafting; work at my hometown's local observatory part-time (We have one 16 ... Gretna, Florida. Over time the project evolved into a multi

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008