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

  

  , which you may remember from Robo-CJ writes a college app or Robo-CJ writes ... 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 / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... years ago when I was applying to college, perhaps I would have felt the ... picks are offered admission. I beg, I plead, I make ridiculous promises

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  we complained that there were several nodes with odd degree in the ... degrees out. I didn’t have my good jacket with me, because it was in a box ... . Alan: Fortunately, it was zero degrees Celsius, and not zero degrees

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  meetings every week that were higher quality than I (as a broke college ... 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  , in anonymous forum posts to college applications to conversations with ... three days earlier this week Cambridge became cold. The twenty-five degree early summer heat was paused momentarily, reaching fifteen degree, even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B. A. from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey Extracurricular: Civil ... “informed that he cannot hope for the Degree next year” (he finally graduated

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . Two. When I first started out with college decisions, I had the belief ... first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , last minute SAT IIs and college applications. If there's any part of the ... college, though, there aren't any seating charts. And at first, it can be ... /science as gigantic suburban schools? I understand that going to college is not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  lot of pressures--MIT things, non-MIT things, college things, home ... was talking to one of my best friends, Javier W. ‘17 of Trinity College ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... my offer of admission. It's been too long ago that I know I'm inventing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• 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 ... -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  to go to college, anymore? Because these are MIT admits, they usually ... April 2005, I had my own tricky time of deciding where to go to college ... , I opened an email. It was an unexpected, unsolicited job offer from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• 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 ... [annotation note="and arguably, even before that. college apps feel so far away ... right now"]to colleges for undergrad,[/annotation] and I can’t trace the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• 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 ... academics, and the college experience is not *just* the classes - it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  until she came to college. It was actually Kenneth who told her about them ... school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... students from MIT, Harvard University, and Wellesley College.[/caption] One

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  't realize the degree until that conversation on Saturday night. In my post on ... less marginally exhausting to read. One pragmatic reason why your college ... basically any college you apply to, or frankly any sufficiently any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , college. People asked me, I wondered, why am I working so hard if there’s no ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014