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  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  way, you won't have to worry about throwing it together when the time ... bucketloads of faith in tow. Time to begin your search! Resources to take ... freshman advisor: it’s this person’s job to help you. My advisor wrote a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  papers I wrote) and some are from an online text, meaning they come from ... "]UROP?[/annotation] B: Because I need a job. A: Why do you need a job? B: Because I need ... resume? B: So I can get a well-paying job when I graduate. A: Why do you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  in one nonstop 20-hour spurt than in 40 hours of punctuated work time ... things you probably have difficulty imagining your online life without ... script that texts your phone once your machine is done running a job. Last

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  college), and yet I've held down two to three jobs at a time pretty much ... part. But even that didn't guarantee that I'd have any money to spend to ... MIT helped me take care of that, too. Finding an on-campus job can be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to accept a full-time job offer and graduate a year early. As for me ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  , hssp was practically a part time job if you consider the amount of time i ... good kind of contagious In these challenging times The students are ... problems with class supplies. But unfortunately, as part of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  about it. Around the same time, I discovered the online writing scene for ... antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this ... same time, I think it's incredibly dishonest to hide behind a blanket

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a ... job. In January 2010 I started babysitting the 6 month old granddaughter

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... same time, it feels utterly forgettable. two Ngunit parang hindi mo naman ... ’s vaguely about linguistics, even though my actual job is designing a website

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  schools I should target. I did know that time was running out, and that I ... online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... irrational reason that I didn’t really understand at the time, I applied. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... my dream job. You learn and write about any area of science that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during ... -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... ']a different activity I’m part of[/annotation]when the email comes through

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  wanted that job for a long time. 2. How I blog - the writing and posting ... hour, so the job couldn't possibly take *that* much time out of your week :) ... an admissions blogger I only have 23 minutes left, so time to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• 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 / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  write. It's been a while since I've done that, in part because I've been ... ’ve moved into the sun. But at the same time, the decision that I have coming ... my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  time I went home. Put the quality on 1080 and see the color green unlike ... think and what we share online, which eliminates a prolific use of Twitter ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... Contents: Free Online Educational Tools Free Standardized Testing Tools ... Online Tools Additional Opportunities that Offer Financial Aid

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  's changed for posterity, maybe before I change it one last time before I ... the morning. And we'll talk about jobs, and anxieties, and the future

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . Deal with it how you may, but it will always be true. The time you spend agonizing over every person who marginally offends you is time you could be ... , or they will start making your schedule require a time turner. Remember

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015