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  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
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  -eyed David duKor-Jackson, March 13, 2012: To whom much is given... Lydia K

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  research and outreach at a planetarium, like Neil deGrasse Tyson. I could be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... office and as an Institute. We believe an MIT education is about learning ... Institute is obligated to educate them to be not only capable technical

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... . In MIT’s early decades, the fledgling Institute lacked both space and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were ... fact that today almost every institution of higher education showcases ... the only institution in the country willing to take on this level of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  international students.   I've been promising a post about international ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... ). International student status is solely determined by citizenship and not by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a copy of the international edition of Newsweek, which had a headline ... accepted me immediately and the third offered me a UROP but no money, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  Webster’s dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used as an adjective: smash¬∑ing Pronunciation: Ààsma-shi≈ãFunction: adjective Date: 18251 : that smashes : crushing; a smashing defeat 2 :…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the ... couldn’t escape it, you see. It was one of the General Institute ... sadly too often my default within the Institute bubble. Eventually, we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  ’ve received so many emails offering support and help. It’s just a really good ... immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to ... access to: When international students with vulnerable/difficult situations

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the ... ;Accept your room offer in one of the student houses and wire the required

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... prison. In particular, the Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... interning at Microsoft under their New Technologists program. And while the ... "New Techs". A lot of these sentiments are reflected in the interns in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  considerable basketball skills to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... basketball." But when the Ivy League universities hesitated to make an offer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  institution is like. College is a place where you'll be for the next 4-6 years ... my aquarius friends/family members is their ability to not internalize ... undergrad institution with one of those friends back in high school and

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018