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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  from MIT as quickly as possible with a computer science degree, and then ... but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... recruiters, and kept signing offers, and never asked myself if I found software

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  the stage and get their diplomas. We got pictures together and ate

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  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 ... keep in touch with me, offer informal life advice, etc. When I got the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  negative ridiculous degrees outside, plus wind chill. And so I weighed the ... , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... college trying to get a degree. 20. People have lived my life five times

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... 's unit? Unless he officially rebukes this and offers an alternative unit

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  internships. Get an offer for an internship. Get another offer for an ... . Tell social media about it. Put the offer deadlines on your calendar. Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• 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 / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that ... offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  Provenza = “madness” Matt Kirshen = “redundancy” Scott Adams = “1 degree

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• 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 ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  picking out her sweet joint degree Melis on -- oh wait she basically already ... Course catalog Degree requirements (mysteriously titled 'course catalog

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... of job offers, but honestly, most people around me are in the same

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  degrees to go the other direction, was called tacking. there were nuances to ... extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  bouquet, Or offer a market assessment, Of the future of Valentine's Day. We ... ="That February, there was a day that was 70 degrees out. It's amazing how warm

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020