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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  , completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own ... level, it was burnout. Working 2 shifts leaves you in a numbing state

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  different states visiting different graduate schools, and realized that home ... would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  state of mind, all like, “Okay, this is what’s happening, p-sets and ... I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be ... 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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to ... lengths weren’t perfectly accurate, our angle wasn’t perfectly 90 degrees. A small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• 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 / 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 ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department ... . “In the States, that would never work. There would be riots,” I said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 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 / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  opportunities or basically show professors that I have something to offer... when in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... : California State Nintendo Champion... a child TV show star... placed in the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... disheveledness of your dorm room/ personal appearance/ mental state attains mythic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , there are no credit restrictions. MIT will no longer offer Early ... representatives, we asked questions and offered our own experiences to shape all ... ) Creating, revising, or removing undergraduate subjects and degree

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... . And then I check answers with other students and offer and receive help ... just talking a problem out is enough to offer new insights on it. I cook

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in-state and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I ... ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  from MIT as quickly as possible with a computer science degree, and then ... but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... recruiters, and kept signing offers, and never asked myself if I found software

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• 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?

  

  open your email. Hillary Clinton is offering you free food in 2-105. You ... new state, you instinctively roll into a ball. This fills you with dread ... . ‘15 The sun is shining. It’s 85 degrees. The sun is shining. Soft flakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  university has to offer are unparalleled relative to anything I’ve seen before ... application, we are unfortunately unable to offer you admission into Penn ... —who worked in an educational sector of the United States Embassy. So after I

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

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  the stage and get their diplomas. We got pictures together and ate

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022