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  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 / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very ... another institution. If I decide to work now, the door to a Ph.D. closes somewhat (including the offer that I have in front of me right now). Not

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... our institutions. I remember wanting to not be changed, wanting to hold ... my offer of admission. It's been too long ago that I know I'm inventing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  reviewers don't know you or your institution"]done blindly.[/annotation]  My ... completely internalize their words, but writing/illustrating this blog are my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• 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 ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT ... Regulations, faculty from across the Institute had to vote on it — and we needed

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• 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 / 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 / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  tell you that I’m an international student from the Philippines, or that ... ’m an international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East ... someone? I could tell you that I’m an international student from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• 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

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... donated excess inventory, 20% was opportunity buys from vendors offering ... institutional donors, but I'm told their goal is to cover 70% of their operating

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• 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 / 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
• 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 ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNq-6N0mDuY&feature=youtu.be[/embed]   [embed

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

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  small blurbs. I grab a donut for breakfast. I headed to Du ... I helped clean up Help Desk. It turned out that Help Desk was offering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  !!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in ... group of students to give Institutional Endorsements to. Everything

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , I opened an email. It was an unexpected, unsolicited job offer from ... talking; I never got another job offer, or any response to any of my (many ... offered and at the same time. He was talking about the things they were

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

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... for fighting. It’s on institutions, not individuals, to ensure that PIs ... did From an Institutional sense, MIT didn’t convince me to Do The Thing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018