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“You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...
universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches -
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Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.
I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college -
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Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...
(2) It was amazing to learn about the universe in a fun and ... relationships! 11.005: Introduction to International Development (1) Great ... international students] Lots of reflection of reflection on my culture and writing -
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[Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27
lengths weren’t perfectly accurate, our angle wasn’t perfectly 90 degrees. A small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate -
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I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D
-foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of 85 degrees. 12 wheels grip plywood from three directions, binding car -
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Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!
taught the best classes while finishing my undergraduate degree, and along ... chance I return to finish my master's degree, because there's research I -
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101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.
! 101. EARN YOUR MIT DEGREE(S)! Biology AND History! :D Been there -
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Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching
E degree. It’s something I can do, mindlessly, while watching TV or -
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No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.
does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the -
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fish metaphors on queerness
least I could say to myself, internally: "they just don't like you because ... "person" and winced internally. This summer, when I introduced myself to my intern cohort, I got to say, for the first time: "Hi! I'm Alan. I use they -
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My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally
teams. I’m on the mechanical engineering team as an intern! This company ... June, I’ve been put on six different projects. One of them is my intern -
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Life is Improv say yes
began working at MIT, my then-girlfriend was a student intern at a free ... prepare for it. I've now fully realized and internalized the fact that I -
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How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(
universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... research university. UROPs are technically a part of a larger [annotation ... their experience and ask for donations to the university. This is meant to -
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continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting
grad admissions so much harder? What if I was that alternate-universe ... this semester, wondering about how alternate-universe-Paolo is doing with ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions
, external and internal. I'll elaborate. External is the form where people ask ... me on my abilities. Internal imposter syndrome is the nagging itch that ... similar questions, it only serves to fuel the fire of the internal. Dealing