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  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  deadline came and went. For those that submitted EA applications, good job ... -ish. :) Before the weather turned cold, Allen and I went sailing for the last time ... part of the PE GIRs (General Institute Requirements) set down by MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  bajillionth time, I should make good on my promise to write something from Spain ... done with the parts that involve getting all the videos off of the video ... 't get to go around Europe hearing about people's awesome jobs and taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  's what I wrote last time: We're designing (not building--the designing part ... parthenogenesis. Anyhoo, the last time I posted, like, a gazillion years ago, I ... off to work at your six-figure investment banking job and stop caring

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job ... success profile can be a valuable framework when you start a job -- a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  it was because I had a crush on this girl and running was ‘my time’ to ... ’t put into words at the time. That’s always what I thought they were ... day, sometimes twice a day. And going to interval training three times a

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade ... overestimate of the time commitment of this class, which had a weekly 1 hour ... semester was the first time that D-Lab: Education was being offered, and I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... time to the project as I would like, and this weekend – I had vowed

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  disappeared." "The ninjas hacked the T, this time using solar panels they stole ... see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great ... ? Also, all the captions to all the pictures of it showing up online and in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  online, and voila, pizza at your door half an hour later. The other prefrosh in our room, Lyla, came back after a mighty good time in 3 or 4 ... unintended place at the right time. I did successfully navigate myself to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  I've received this link multiple times today (thanks Kevin and Susan ... MIT blogger, "I've voted 3 or 4 thousand times!" Fortunately the ... 's amazing what you can find out about a person online), but as he left a clear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  last time. Anonymous: "Sam, would you kindly post a piece of your music ... Emerson Scholar program? MTG? I've read most of the online stuff, but I'd like to know about the time commitment and competitiveness of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved ... job. Then I got the grade. Not what I expected. Stunned, I skimmed ... slapped. The first sentence: "A good job, but there are issues you might

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  time. I thought that this was what college was like. I expected it to ... be way too fatalistic. What I didn't fully recognize at the time was ... with now, two years later, that's been a huge part of my life since

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  class from 9 units to 15 because it's not a low time commitment class. Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design ... then just make it, market it, and sell it. Awesomeness! 2) I got a job

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  , get a job. Whether it's a UROP or work-study or some part-time job on ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... over one bad pset. But at the same time... 2. Don't abuse PNR. PNR is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  the goddamn loveliest melody How grateful I was then to be part of the ... the communities I've been a part of have been there to provide love and ... shock. And hearing this song, I realized that the good times of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  finding jobs that you enjoy and which want to hire you is supposed to be ... figured out, part of me is happy for them and part of me is jealous, and part of me understands that the extent to which other people are put

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  work even a part-time summer job and then find a way to work a couple ... variable, part of people's budgets. Although students on [annotation note ... manage their time to grocery shop and cook, or pay for take-out meals

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  ), the exhibit does a really good job of pacing the paintings and providing ... ="104068" /] Monet is my favorite painter of all time (I would decorate my entire house ... into the Monet room for too long and just stared. My favorite part is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  a personal time capsule, immortalizing all my worries and hopes from ... -fi so I could take video calls for my new job (which I had already started ... are just a part of growing up. And it's somewhere that I thought I would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022