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  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 / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... Coursework 3.091 - Solid-State Chemistry ("three oh nine fun") 5.11x

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to ... are alternate universes where similar but different versions of herself ... of the different states of the world. Final thoughts I don't have plans

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’ll never know the counterfactuals. There’s no alternate-universe-self for me ... the feeling of awe at the university — but also trying to figure out ... undergraduates; 16 million people in the United States go to college right now

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to ... participants arrived at the laboratory,” states the paper, “the experimenter (a ... women in math: research at Indiana University found that females

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  alumni said my name."][/annotation] Figure out an entire new city, state ... my experience, but they’re often more universal than you’d think.  It ... couple of years ago, my dad worked in a different state, but commuted six

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
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  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?!

  

  passed down from the MIT Treasurer stating that the Institute simply could ... traditional across American universities at least dating back into the late ... surprised to find the gilt from the State House Dome transferred some night to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... Boston University, just across the river. And although it hasn’t been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few ... state, “Be reasonably specific on the allocation of time.”) Perhaps the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... building codes also state that if MIT spends more than some amount of money

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  every state. Make friends with people outside of your living group. Sure ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  internship at Rutgers University, for which I pretty much functioned as a data ... contest held by the United States Treasury and the grand prize was getting

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  it’s worth it, even when it feels unnatural. There is a value to faking

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  problematic fake science Myers-Briggs test (read more about that here). Big 5

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  a fake persona when school is already challenging enough. Unironic

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... that feature gay content, like Steven Universe or Yuri on Ice, media that ... liberal state, or even because I was a writing a literature thesis under the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019