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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... have agency: own your decisions. What do I mean by that? I mean that at ... activities you choose to do, the major you choose to pursue, the classes you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  , then registered for again, then considered dropping. I just couldn’t do ... Pidgin English, “oya Vincent swim” and pushed me. He didn’t do it nearly ... everything moves fast in MIT? It turns out they really do mean everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the ... to do is to work on It, and make it better so that next time you might ... score of 4.8 on them, and I have a 4.5 weighted GPA despite doing 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  levitate objects and he could probably do without them. The milk carton ... occasionally, disgustingly burped. Regrettably, we were unable to offer the Milk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  travelled as we do on the heights achieved. I think our admission decisions ... offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . It was a strange feeling. I don't remember the date, but I do remember ... doing well in science competitions. MIT was the only school that let me ... mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  funds do? To amuse myself, I briefly pictured manicured shrubs made from ... -year-old me, Deresiewicz offered a terrifying prospect. I didn’t want to be a ... . I didn’t know what to do, so I chose to do nothing: stumbled into a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an ... my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very ... research you do about colleges, things might change in ways you never could

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... does Daily Table do all this? Well, a Harvard Business School case study

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... decline the offer. The weather just happened to be beautiful.   This ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... might impact their college applications. We do not expect or prefer any ... students do. However, as part of the Turning the Tide report, we have also

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

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  though, nearly incomprehensible to the vast majority. I do explain that I ... transformative experiences in situations like these, and even do a great deal of ... rigueur activity that everyone needed to do in order to look good for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... best thing to do about it. Talking it over with Dave and a friend of mine ... -building headaches like a drive failure, there was little time to do anything beyond

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  that package? It was all I could do to balance my sanity between the ... university has to offer are unparalleled relative to anything I’ve seen before ... real glimmer of hope emerged. You do have a chance, I told myself. Penn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post ... ="though i have some ideas"]what to do,[/annotation] and how to do it as ... "] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH[/caption] To some extent, this is stuff I’ve been doing for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  perfectly fine, if we do the same things from the outside. And yet, what can ... took nursing in college. She took the NCLEX and got a job offer somewhere. My father was a professor, at the time, and got an offer for a research

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  . If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same ... ’ve received so many emails offering support and help. It’s just a really good ... immense amount of support has come pouring in from MIT Alumni, offering to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  programs no longer offered (like Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering ... undergraduate majors MIT offers has nearly doubled since, the essence of the ... mathematics that may be offered by their school.”"]recommended high school

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  opportunities or basically show professors that I have something to offer... when in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... notoriously huge workload because I was pretty sure that I'd love doing the work

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... Who’s Been Doing This All Semester, yours truly! Movies! These are ... is: Spontaneity! I’m a huge fan of doing random things

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014