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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  saint of Beardvember This is easier said than done, even though you have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately, nobody was ... said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  offer fantastic financial aid and everything else. Stephen Joel ... and Private Universities,” by Shadowen and Tulante, 49 Santa Clara L ... Institutional Research (IR), erroneously reported that MIT Admissions offered a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  . Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... also offer classes on genre fiction and science fiction, taught by an MIT ... -drawn-from-a-hat prompt had to do with parallel universes. But the best part, at least for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... upper body tilts by maybe 5 or 10 degrees when i’m trying to walk quickly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Travel

  Motion of Manhattan and other photos from the busy city next door.

  

  More snippets of life; A sequel photoblog to Colors of Campus Series inspired by Kai’s Parallel Universe Post

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 29, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore ... (idk the number). I am attacking my degree with a breadth-first search ... degree to be (6-2? 6-1? 2A-6? 6-3?). To be transparent, this approach has

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost any reason as ... for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for labor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  's charge for the graduates, the receipt of the diploma—these are pomp. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  the best steak in the world, guaranteed or I'll give you my diploma

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  diplomas, as the ceremony was coming to an end. Frosh, welcome to MIT. You

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  June 2008 seemed an eternity away when I first arrived on MIT's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a sappy reflective entry (that will come later!) Instead, I wanted to share

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  revoke your admission or diploma (jk) The t-shirt I was planning on

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  's degrees in mathematics and computer science, and I will have finished my first semester of my master's degree here. GPA isn't that important for my ... have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at ... , that I do not need a master's degree in CMS, as tempting as it sounds"]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  -design-me-a-quick-robot-over-Skype-please)), and negotiating offers and deadlines. ^That paragraph was ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... and urban planning degrees. As I learned more about the field and ... taking advantage of what MIT has to offer, and though I will still continue

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014