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• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering intern! I was really happy that I finally had a job, and a chance acquire ... really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  about going to MIT was that I wouldn't have the time to do as much ... do, and I think it's just so incredible how well they manage their time ... they take ridiculously hard classes and have jobs and everything.  They

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for ... this subject while growing up in the 2010s, but this was the first time i ... you bundle up those feelings and scale them up by ten times, and then

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  something is much higher than simply hearing a no. If I invest time and energy into a job application, only to not get the job, that is time and energy ... company (this has happened a few times when I didn't perform well in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  ("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1 ... CourseWare. I did a few lessons before stopping to have time to study for the SAT ... learned SQL to store the user's data online in a MySQL table so they can log

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  acquisition of another part-time job, a frenzy of costume-making, broccoli, the ... today, I walked onto the MIT campus for the first time and nearly hated it ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  , but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have ... : maybe I could get some posters of beaches and line the bottom part of the ... their heads into that room a few times over the past 2 years and were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  through junior high and high school. By the time I got to MIT, it was pretty ... software. This is where I came in. It was my job to make the necessary ... a mechanic, by the time I left I was making some real engineering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT ... time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can ... school assignments (you might just get 5 problems, with a) b) c) d) e) f)...parts ... . * They take much more time than high school assignments (18.03 psets are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  better about over time. part of that is because of this buildup of ... a Sunday afternoon just being chronically online, and so i have ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... occurs all the time in humans as well. i’ve written about this idea before ... find more people they like). that you stop learning once you have a job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  lot of time on my UROP this semester. It involves making a game in Unity ... lot of time so that I can finish it and hopefully have kids playing it ... Campus CPW Chair: I'm finally part of the East Campus swamp (a vaguely self

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  needing to eventually find a real job and about knowing what I want to do. I ... ’m already looking for a job! Anyway, my classes are a lot of the reason I am ... asked before the night before the pset is due. The other part of this

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  find:  When I was interviewed as part of my application to MIT, my ... . “For a long time,” he said, “MIT has recruited people who are great at ... long and vast life is, yet at the same time, how fleetingly short and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  answer is YES, you can. People will say this a million times - but if you ... ... Will you be HAPPY (at least ~50% of the time)??? There's a reason why ... Found Paradise.” Most of the time, you'll agree with one of them. Our

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended ... Carnegie. I digress. 8:45am, Elements Cafe: Arrive from the 71C bus in time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I ... what I’ve been trained to do. Every time I wanted to take a hard science ... times I have almost deleted this, or considered re-phrasing so that the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  only television show for which I consistently made the time. It was a ... and fellow alum Dara) in part so I could editorialize on current events ... William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, in large part because I'd read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... ? My job. My job is very much not boring and I think you'll agree. I ... minutes of my time for your trouble. I hesitated a bit when considering

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012