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<li>Employment = PAID Jobs?</li>
<li>If one 'employment' happened during the summer, do I repeat it under Summer Activities or simply put it in Employment?</li>
<li>So generally, no repeats in Summer Activities and Employment?</li>
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<p>ybc1729 - Summer activity implies things such as a trip abroad, summer internship (paid/unpaid), summer research, peer tutoring, club activities, i.e (a recycling program for NHS) or sports. The adcom folks are wanting to know that you were doing something valuable during your time off from high school. </p>
<p>If your employment is a paid job worked only over the summer months, you could include it in this section too. If you are employed year-round and the job(s) is included under the employment section, you don’t need to list it again. </p>
<p>By definition, I think employment is always paid and internships are always unpaid (though obviously no one who has a ‘paid internship’ goes by this distinction).</p>
<p>For this section, I listed the summer school courses that I took after freshman year, the exchange program that I went on sophomore year, and the girls’ engineering camp I went to junior year (if I remember correctly, it’s been 3 years now).</p>
<p>I think I noted the part-time year-round job that I had in the ‘employment’ section and left it off the ‘summer activities’ section because I had something else to put there over junior year. I also listed stuff like ‘hanging out with friends’, ‘family vacation’, and ‘catching up on reading’. I think the admissions office really just wants to know what you did - they’re not going to judge you if you didn’t cure cancer during your summer off.</p>
<p>MIT doesn’t have a strict definition, right? Then to put in which spot, it’s up to you (but don’t be non-sense to put a job into distinction spot :D). MIT wants to look at every aspects of yours, so don’t repeat what you’ve written down: you’re wasting your space.</p>
<p>I also would like to know whether volunteer work should be placed at the five activities in and out of school - hobbies, interests, sports, clubs, projects, etc, or at Summer Activities (reading, relaxing, camp, travel, summer school, volunteer work, research, etc.)</p>
<p>I have been volunteering for a very long time, but I have stopped since a few months. So where should it be placed?</p>