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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... ’m not faking it. Everybody’s faking it. Which is just another way of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with ... replication and protein synthesis! My postdoc and I discuss the state of our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• 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 ... universities, and Spencer was among 31 selected; the scholarship will fund his ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... degree. With just a glance, you can see the CMS option has much more free

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  education from MIT is like… Witty quips living in a state of dreaming ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... . —Diani Jones Oh, capitalism getting a degree from a giant corporation. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• 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 ... state where I literally knew no one, the people were different, the ... 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 ... 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 / Academics & Research

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

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... the States was prefixed by living with my aunt and her family in ... States, I’ve tried a variety of cuisines--Thai, Indian, Chinese

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

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this ... about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• 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 ... 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

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

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph ... 's, University of London MBBS) Medical doctor - physical medicine and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  Missouri, a southern state university, Yale, a new england private university ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... United States is arguably becoming worse than it has been in recent years

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• 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.

  

  as an all-State player at Heritage High School in Littleton, Colo., where he drew recruiting attention from Division II universities and a ... hardest. Anderson tried to sell him on the university’s academic excellence

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

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... University of Pennsylvania, and inside I found several brochures, and a letter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Astronomy (with Anna Frebel, who studies the early universe, works on discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  like to mentally split my workload into “steady-state” and “anomalous” categories. Steady-state work is recurring and regular: things like lectures ... in the steady-state category. Assignments are pushed and flushed from

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , in the comments section. Not the same few colleges: Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004