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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  finally hit the 6 month mark at my job. Wow. Well here we are. 6 months of ... afloat in the deep end that is my job, and connecting with polar opposites ... , and beautiful all at the same time. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate ... olivia rodrigo"]brutal.[/annotation] Which in part I’ve been expecting. I ... jobs/commitments. In contrast, the main job of PhD students and research

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  evolve over time, but they’ve just got to constitute tangible-enough fuel ... to that question is “something that is no longer worth my time,” a fuel ... having enjoyed my time here as a student. Things changed when: I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life, and there are some serious perkus nonacademia. I've landed awesome jobs ... back to visit a few times, and every time it's been a blast. Most

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  positions, extra courses, part time work, clubs, and societies to fill that ... two weeks, and hope that you get your passport in the mail on time ... deposit.  Figure out how to do an international wire online, but

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  online hunts such as teammate or Silph have cropped up, with a huge growth ... puzzlehunts; if there's any time to pick up the hobby, it'd be now. The Hunt, I ... puzzles to write the Mystery Hunt alone; and they still found the time to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  abruptly, too suddenly. The image of the Stata Center that you saw online and ... and Boston. Online, I saw that image of 19-year-old Tsarnaev being ... lost my perception of time, those moments when I was stressed and tired

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , and to use the extra time we'll have to try getting an artistic job ... of jobs, from purely technical to purely artistic to literally ... stuff just kind of drains us because it is sooooooo hard and time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  time I realized, 30 people had already filled out the form. So, this is ... used for reasons that mentioned that the class was the first time someone ... number of times mentioned, which is the number in parentheses.   

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  real life; I spent most of my time online, where I could pretend ... posts with my strongest memory from that time: the night that I told my ... into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a ... 't see you again for some time, but I thought I'd send a note anyway. It ... a time. And I'm hoping this will help. Writing, that is. Speaking

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... submission.** The director gave her the job instantly. *limnology: the study of ... time swimming in Brazilian rivers or researching in Fiji. It doesn't get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  'm mentally and physically spent by my first semester at MIT; this time, part of ... The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate ... school for architecture or engineering, or maybe even writing, or a job at ... "]last six years[/annotation] as I’ve tried searching for jobs, internships, or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online. There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in ... landscaper in high school it was my job to become physically exhausted. There ... capacity for what really matters. But at a certain point, it's our job to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  (someone whose full-time job is just to help residents) found me and said he ... it a lot oh r u talking about the split or steal part the first episode ... they progress over time paolo: my fave yes maybe i should run these

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  student chose to become part of MIT’s class of 2018. While I have nothing ... -so-exciting lives of your friends offline or online, and that only amplifies when all ... online rankings of “Top 100 Schools in the World” nor debates about Harvard

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... center, and it’s a highlight of my week. It’s a time that I carve out of ... freshmen! The freshmen life group has already started doing online meetings

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  , substituting multiple times, invoking the scary-sounding integration by parts ... from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a ... times this semester I had to send awkward emails – like asking a professor

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009