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

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  nine, one of my high school teachers took a couple of us on an out-of-state ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... 'd regard both equally, because while 22-year-old me has the diploma, the 18 ... difficult to enjoy a higher quality of life without a diploma), and MIT is not

  • 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 / 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 ... : California State Nintendo Champion... a child TV show star... placed in the

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

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

  

  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 / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in-state and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I ... ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• 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 / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... the States was prefixed by living with my aunt and her family in ... States, I’ve tried a variety of cuisines--Thai, Indian, Chinese

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• 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 ... application, we are unfortunately unable to offer you admission into Penn ... —who worked in an educational sector of the United States Embassy. So after I

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

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this ... passed down from the MIT Treasurer stating that the Institute simply could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• 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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  the various opportunities and supports MIT has to offer. And there ... spent probably the first three weeks in a constant state of far too much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  ubiquitous local Dunkin Donuts, the Massachusetts State House, and the ... good-looking restaurants offering Asian foods in the area, with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• 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 savings time. Okay, so it's been like a month. I don't know what happened ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  't yet full-formed; it's only explicitly stated in later catalogs. Course ... stated in the previous catalogs we've looked at. This is earlier than when ... department. With this came the concept of each class being offered by a certain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  alumni said my name."][/annotation] Figure out an entire new city, state ... ended up convincing me to do [annotation note=" Real analysis is offered ... nudge, the “even if you don’t…,” and the offer to help me write an email

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  simply goes from one predetermined state to another. An NFA, in one sense, does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between states even if there was no input. Does this make its behavior

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

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  name on a diploma doesn't define you. Your life, experiences, and how you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015