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  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... universities which were usually selective universities. There are also threads on ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... -year-old me, Deresiewicz offered a terrifying prospect. I didn’t want to be a ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... information contained within the universe. A small library near jlab ceases to ... universe has reasserted itself. A particular small goose is fed fois gras for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  acquainted with all we have to offer."]CPW.[/annotation] There is no rush at ... universally. Only best and worst for you. So please, please, please please form ... have even had AP Biology offered at your school. It is these differences

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• 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 ... collaboration with dietitians from Boston area universities and health centers a ... donated excess inventory, 20% was opportunity buys from vendors offering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  grad admissions so much harder? What if I was that alternate-universe ... this semester, wondering about how alternate-universe-Paolo is doing with ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very ... somewhat (including the offer that I have in front of me right now). Not ... grad school now, I lose the job offer I have open, and there are no

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . My options, as I saw them then, were a local public university where ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... , I opened an email. It was an unexpected, unsolicited job offer from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• 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

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  plaintiff, about whether and how colleges and universities may consider race ... , Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), universities are allowed to consider race only ... among many factors in the admission of students to selective STEM degree

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  we sometimes write on the blogs, we write all MIT degrees when ... effect.']master's degree[/annotation] in urban planning. Now, he works for ... computer science degree and a master's, and is a product designer for Twitch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• 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 programs no longer offered (like Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering ... undergraduate majors MIT offers has nearly doubled since, the essence of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to ... lengths weren’t perfectly accurate, our angle wasn’t perfectly 90 degrees. A small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  that don't know, BOSE offers discounts on all their products to current ... ! 101. EARN YOUR MIT DEGREE(S)! Biology AND History! :D Been there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 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