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  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 ... anything, I was most concerned about getting into the University of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... universities, namely Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... named after Harvard’s namesake, John Harvard, rather than the university

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  finding place

  

  exceptions. You can't rely on serendipitously bumping into people at university

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  tell you about it: It's universal; we all have it. The only people who

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed

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

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

  

  . My options, as I saw them then, were a local public university where ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... universe, it was me. But I don't regret this decision either, even when I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  tournament by Rowan University. This week, I met with two players from this

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
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  [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
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  "Economics" in my degree to tell you that. I consider myself ridiculously

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  masters degree. I’ve learned how to keep learning--how to adopt new skills

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  Grey and Other Colors

  

  , completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012