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  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  hate most about this time of year. I've never had a good spring semester ... time February and March rolls around things feel tired, they feel already ... anymore. But I think one of the benefits of this time of year is that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  online submission date was November 1. Shortly before then, something ... School’s done a first-rate job on making me feel like an outcast for it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I ... also the online content (vlogs, extended scenes, "school newspaper

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the ... . This job, I’m realizing as I write this, has really accelerated the aging

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  graduated today, helped interview me for my current job. During CPW, late one ... time one night and staying up late talking about something in the hallway ... job at MIT and finding out it's the best home I've ever had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... - internship applications, job applications, scholarships, grants, grad school ... three) of summer job hunt cycles, *accepting* negative decisions is easier

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  can adjust the Duty Cycle, or what part of the time the square wave is ... , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs) expressly forbid taking pictures. So, I decided to take pictures of part of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007 ... for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological ... /dance/yoga breaks. Don’t think that you have to be working or occupied all the time

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  a CI-H/HW class some time in your first year, so consider those. Also ... checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many ... want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  great job, and you can't stop thinking about him or her all the time ... of money. —Robo-CJ getting a job at a computer company. You get to ... of money. —Robo-CJ combining the worst parts of imposter syndrome and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... hair, looking up and around and having the greatest time. We have gone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... 's because of that one bad grade! It's because I didn't have time to take the ... to do is to work on It, and make it better so that next time you might

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... writing this essay? If that person isn’t the part of you that you were ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  . First time getting a technical A+. Grades are an important part of MIT ... . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some of them. ** 1. First time using a washing machine. My first time in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  , shifted over one hour in time and two buildings in space. On Monday nights ... little. No biggie. Maybe I'll post about that some other time"]the class ... took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... trackpad, and I like that my computer does not become airborne every time I ... form of electronic calendar. Time management. ‘Nuff said. Thesaurus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  ,000 kilometres from home, more than ten times farther from my parents than I had ... approaching the end of an eleven-month stint in the UK, this time working at an ... -profit company. I still haven't interned in a government job (a viable career

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  continue processing our feelings in real time online on other platforms, but ... been by Cami M. '23 in search of lost time by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24 and ... in person or online. When we first sent out the email inviting alums

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... forward a couple of years. Here's what happened this time. An e-mail got ... most votes after an unspecified amount of time would be declared the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  ." Every time I saw a prefrosh ask about queer dorms on campus, either online ... of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022