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

  -in programs to explore different universities in new settings, don't cross off

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• 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

  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
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am ... application,” you’ll probably end up going to a university that wouldn’t benefit

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Technology, one of the world's most famous universities. MIT students are some ... degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  fake, and I hate that. Maybe if I keep expelling the gloom, there will be

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  the unusually warm weather we've been having, it was actually fake snow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’s head designer Jony Ive recently described many university design programs ... laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• 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.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  ="That February, there was a day that was 70 degrees out. It's amazing how warm ... the young kids call a Finsta, or a Fake Instagram. I posted a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , collected from my agenda, and others have “fake” data, collected from my memories

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  believe that it's difficult to fake. Maybe. I hope so, anyway, because MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  your major when you have a diploma in hand. Tattoos and piercings are ... receive my MIT diploma. -Yul

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  said, "Ok sweetie keep cross regging for your engineering classes. Hope ... ? Harvard and MIT students can cross-register for classes at the other school ... ). Sorry, Harvard friends! Please keep cross-regging (not sarcastic

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  experiences at pretty much any university. The funny thing is, individually ... their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  science-fiction universe. Then I saw snow for the first time while running ... great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... college trying to get a degree. 20. People have lived my life five times

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -dimensional polyhedron into infinitesimally thin two-dimensional cross sections and adding ... assumption was that if two lines cross, they must have a point in common ... research in Germany, first at his hometown university and then at G

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  were separate. There was no easy way to navigate between them or to cross ... with the universal categories we had established. I hired Mollie to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  name on a diploma doesn't define you. Your life, experiences, and how you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015