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  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  believe that it's difficult to fake. Maybe. I hope so, anyway, because MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  experiences at pretty much any university. The funny thing is, individually ... their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  science-fiction universe. Then I saw snow for the first time while running ... great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... college trying to get a degree. 20. People have lived my life five times

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  name on a diploma doesn't define you. Your life, experiences, and how you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... Boston University, just across the river. And although it hasn’t been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... University of Pennsylvania, and inside I found several brochures, and a letter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... information contained within the universe. A small library near jlab ceases to ... universe has reasserted itself. A particular small goose is fed fois gras for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . The University of Missouri incidents over the month of November started ... uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university’s ... Missouri, a southern state university, Yale, a new england private university

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  it’s worth it, even when it feels unnatural. There is a value to faking

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

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  problematic fake science Myers-Briggs test (read more about that here). Big 5

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  a fake persona when school is already challenging enough. Unironic

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  Provenza = “madness” Matt Kirshen = “redundancy” Scott Adams = “1 degree

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• 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

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  picking out her sweet joint degree Melis on -- oh wait she basically already ... Course catalog Degree requirements (mysteriously titled 'course catalog

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Harvey-Mudd College with students and professors from the University ... participating Texas universities while conducting their own independent projects ... : The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Arlington

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  University theater 8:05pm watch The Saint Plays   We went to these ... life (at university, 19-20 years old, thinks way too deeply about the universe, etc.) even though we're thousands of miles apart (she grew up in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014