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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  to your peers. Everyone at MIT has something to offer (you do too ... vaccines cause autism, that institutional racism isn’t real, that trickle ... your major when you have a diploma in hand. Tattoos and piercings are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• 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 ... attends a school called Peer Institution. Rachel A. ‘17 An unpopular policy ... your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me. Leo de C. ‘18 It is hot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  I decided that one cul-de-sac was no riskier than the others, so I ... par with the Uffizi. I was just walking along, la-de-da, lookit that ... writing retreat in Sheepwash, Devonshire where I would be interning. We took

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... companies[/annotation] while I was still interning at PlayStation this summer ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Une expérimentation de l’indépendance: partie la troisième attention, s'il vous plaît--j'ai une annonce. et aussi, beaucoup de photos.

  

  finir toutes les classes sur Codecademy avant l'automne de 2014. Et voilà ... de Python, sur Codecademy. Yaaay! Mais maintenant, je ne suis pas sûr quelle langue je veux apprendre suivant. Il y a trop de choix: peut-être je

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Online Tools Additional Opportunities that Offer Financial Aid ... .mit.edu Description: A public library of courses offered by MIT with publicly available ... : Code.org  Link: code.org Description: A free website that offers a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  proportion of international students in a U.S. institution. In a 1917 Boston ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year ... a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... 'd regard both equally, because while 22-year-old me has the diploma, the 18 ... Institute was, and he told me that he loved that it was as close a thing to a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... transfer students: Gaurab Previous institution: Purdue University (West

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  an internal monologue. The thing about brains is that it's so easy to ... took nursing in college. She took the NCLEX and got a job offer somewhere. My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Office was formally created in 1929, led by the Institute’s first ... in modernist International Style/Swiss typography—undoubtedly a product ... programs no longer offered (like Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  information sessions, to barbecues, to ambitious projects. International

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  Rats featured this little fella named Zappy, who's served as the de facto ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  with the "objects of the School of the Massachusetts Institute of ... ="60407" image5="60408" /] Academics. Instruction in the Institute was thought of ... professor. The Institute's faculty had only ten professors, one handling each

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was ... determine people’s fates. If you had won an international science fair ... grades. But when I saw those threads filled with national and international

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  -Madison did not offer aid to international students, and my parents would have ... university has to offer are unparalleled relative to anything I’ve seen before ... application, we are unfortunately unable to offer you admission into Penn

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

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  published in Science, won international math Olympiads, and were already ... says something like "It is my pleasure to offer you..." Oh. OOH. OOOH ... raised in a world in which ‘institutions’ or governing bodies have a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  an institution that appreciates you and understands why you're special ... -Conner Anonymous '15 - "You want to attend an institution that appreciates you and ... name on a diploma doesn't define you. Your life, experiences, and how you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur,” good food is the ... ."]I live in EC.[/annotation] International student from Taiwan ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020