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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with ... replication and protein synthesis! My postdoc and I discuss the state of our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• 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 ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  state legislators. Their leadership has galvanized students at schools ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not

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

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

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• 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 ... chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in-state

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  education from MIT is like… Witty quips living in a state of dreaming ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... . —Diani Jones Oh, capitalism getting a degree from a giant corporation. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... -year-old me, Deresiewicz offered a terrifying prospect. I didn’t want to be a ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  six or so other people. The people who were out-of-state were carpooling ... 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

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

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... disheveledness of your dorm room/ personal appearance/ mental state attains mythic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  Missouri, a southern state university, Yale, a new england private university ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... United States is arguably becoming worse than it has been in recent years

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• 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 ... state where I literally knew no one, the people were different, the ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  becoming.[/annotation] And after bloggers receive their diplomas alongside ... of this four-year university model. These [annotation note="around a ... . But as we started posting, more bloggers reached out and offered to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... fifth-degree polynomial, because it's well-known that work varies as the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we ... so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , in the comments section. Not the same few colleges: Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004