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• 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. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  belonging, in ridiculousness and degeneracy, until time do you part.  poem B ... packing i had a lot of thoughts about my time at this dorm bottled up in me ... and cockroaches can go, but So many parts of this dorm are Things we

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• 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 / 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
• 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

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  very bad about this because part of my job as a 6.005 TA is to make sure ... notes that are still on the board from the part of lecture I missed. I try ... then we part ways. As I enter the library I have a sudden, urgent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  clipped, as I found myself buying anything I really needed either online at ... about squeezing out every single penny I can. I'd rather use the time for doing better at my job or for learning new things. As a college student I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  basis, none of us particularly enjoy the rejection part of our job. And ... get together for the first time. The Logarhythms were preparing for ... ? It's definitely wasn't the first (or, unfortunately, the last) time

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  was rejected from both of those jobs and accepted to all four Physics Ph ... . Plus I was paranoid about online privacy and using PGP to encrypt my ... time as a programmer and security auditor. After almost a year of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  tech showcase/career fair. I'm pretty done with job hunting ("done with" meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see ... recruiters (seen: online platform to coordinate housing programs, 3D

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016