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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 -
FAQ / International applicants
What if my country has a different academic calendar?
high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university -
Blog / Challenges
how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been
, committing to failure and settling?']I could always finish my degree and then ... embarrassment. I’ve traveled the world, attended a dream university, got along -
Blog / About Decisions
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
physics-philosophy degree. Allow me to demonstrate with this participatory ... corner of the universe. I guess the real magic was the friends we made -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis
. Faced with all these questions (amplified to the nth degree by 2020) I did ... , Pennsylvania, a few minutes from the Carnegie Mellon University campus, which I -
Blog / How to Human
how to meet curious people
at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program -
Blog / Personal Travel
Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.
one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their -
Blog / Admissions
Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas
We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... they universities, companies, nonprofits, startups, are doing these -
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 -
Blog / About Decisions
So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it
at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... students who had aspired to study at the best universities since before they -
Blog / MIT Life
Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.
the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... him as a professor at Princeton University overflowing with awards and -
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 -
Blog / About Decisions
Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?
right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.
under Taiwan's Universal Health Plan, I really had no sense of the great ... water but keeps on vomiting it up, fever of over 100 degrees, has no -
Blog / Academics & Research
grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?
at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... financially feasible for students to pursue the degree. Social life is ... students to receive master’s degrees in computer science, the MEng requires -
Blog / Classes
How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)
degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... -degree increments. To describe an object’s orientation, you needed just two ... fact, if rotations were in 90-degree increments instead, this model would -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane
. MIT Summer in Washington: A sticker to commemorate my virtual internship at the World Bank this past summer. MIT's Summer In Washington program -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona
/Latino(x) community in Washington Heights dealing with the effects of gentrification ... the community of Washington Heights was literally powerless -
Blog / Academics & Research
An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP
interesting. I went downtown to Washington D.C. with my brother on the metro ... like this: Brother: So that's the Washington Memorial. That's the