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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  decline the offer. The weather just happened to be beautiful.   This ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  respective first choice schools early decision. "I have a really good feeling ... the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... from what I thought was my dream school. I have grown so much in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  at high school students. Last Splash, we had 2,142 enrolled students ... Summer Studies Program. It then became the High School Studies Program by ... quiz, and they offered to ship shark plushies to the people who scored

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... science major at MIT, and maybe if I should switch to a school that would ... school, if I'm being completely honest, and I'm really grateful I ended up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  made plans to attend. “It’s too bad I’m so busy this week,” I thought

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  -workers on their exotic business trips, but I did get five paid vacation days

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• 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…

  

  bit. So this is knowing yourself business is no longer super helpful

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  was asked several times at my grad school interviews how the environment ... severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... how you perceive your acceptance into the three “tiers” of schools

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Microsoft. MIT is behind you. After the stairs make a 180-degree turn and look

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  wanted to take his TV station national in 1979, he offered to donate $50

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  ahead into the '06, I offer this quote from one of my favorite writers

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  felt like I knew what I was walking into when I decided to go to a school like MIT, a school that was not in a predominantly black area, and had a ... high school even though I normally went to schools where half of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a ... people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  have glimpsed rejection and are already thinking about other schools. And ... ) blew my mind, how my school was teeming with energy and diversity, how I ... the release of EA decisions. I seriously pondered skipping school that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... one" or "the ambitious one" in high school—sometimes that's all they ... , schools, groups and so on. If you can find those pieces, you're probably in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chop up your vegetables in evenly sized

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  yourself how you spend your time and money. The school you choose in the next ... senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... Pennsylvania. I realized it wouldn’t be any different if I went to school there

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012