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  50 Reflections

  

  front page of the New York Times -- above the fold, no less. (Here is the ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

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

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report because she is lucky and I am not, and since New York is only a 4-hour Fung ... awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I ... about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Prize, alongside such distinguished visionaries as Steve Penfold of York University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... awarded a prize at an Ig Nobel ceremony :) (Also, the rest of John Carr

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .091 helped me discover my interest in course 3! At the end of each class we ... my eyes to a lot of new material regularly. It's certainly drinking out ... clever people who are down to earth, and can provide a new mode of thinking

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon" was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... at a whiteboard that proclaimed two hundred dollars’ worth of chips ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... . Alden Thresher, the inaugural Director of Admissions at MIT, noted the ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... University of Pennsylvania, and inside I found several brochures, and a letter ... universities and scholarship organizations. Regardless of the reason, I was glad

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  look at it. College decisions are not a reflection of your personal merit ... rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their ... , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy ... worked my ass off (at the cost of sleep - not recommended). Calculus was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 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 ... dorms would take on an entirely new level of technicality—the rise of the ... Cambridge campus’ construction. At the turn of the century, a still

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;Register for the intensive German course at University of Zürich.   ... orientation session at ETH, the word Eigenverantwortung popped up during one of ... Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  of staying in our current major or switching majors. After 2 years at ... semester at a time, and see where that takes us. And, of course, write about ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  ending--it's the beginning of a path you might not have meant to take at ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... , he just assumed D9 organizations would be at any university he went to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• 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 ... Confidential at some point and thought the idea of a bunch of competitive people

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014