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  has exhausted all that we have to offer him in this small community, and ... you will be able to offer him a place in MIT's freshman class.  
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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  'm sitting on a train that took me from Washington D.C. where I had just met ... prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... March in Washington D.C., I told the press that I wanted to go to MIT. And

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  guaranteed admission into a program that grants a Harvard University diploma ... respectful, more generous, and more kind. The diplomas start at 3:23:45. See if ... summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  never forget the music I listened to on my UROP trip to Washington, DC. I ... to your peers. Everyone at MIT has something to offer (you do too ... your major when you have a diploma in hand. Tattoos and piercings are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on ... ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
• 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 ... -country road trip later I found myself (lost) in Washington, D.C. asking

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

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... 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

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• 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 / 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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... computer science degree for that prestige level. I hate how I still bend to ... think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• 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.

  

  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 ... . And then I check answers with other students and offer and receive help

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Washington Sq Park and an entire street of yummy treats (aka. St Marks) nearby ... an admissions guru (lolz) when I was still in college, I offer the same ... yourself. 2. Be prepared. In my previous blog post, I offered a few pointers

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  university has to offer are unparalleled relative to anything I’ve seen before ... 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

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014