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  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... universities, and Spencer was among 31 selected; the scholarship will fund his ... ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... . —Diani Jones Oh, capitalism getting a degree from a giant corporation. The ... getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  -and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I ... , unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. I had about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with ... days. I am crossing my fingers that the water is at least 50 degrees C

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... universities which were usually selective universities. There are also threads on ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... -year-old me, Deresiewicz offered a terrifying prospect. I didn’t want to be a ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• 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 ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  . My options, as I saw them then, were a local public university where ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... , I opened an email. It was an unexpected, unsolicited job offer from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  that don't know, BOSE offers discounts on all their products to current ... ! 101. EARN YOUR MIT DEGREE(S)! Biology AND History! :D Been there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  different from most other universities where you register several weeks or ... degree requirements"] unlimited units policy.[/annotation] This post will ... : 8.282/12.402: Introduction to Astronomy 8.286: The Early Universe

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019