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  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
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  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
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and excruciating at worst. It is possible, of course, that this pain was inevitable ... while. In short, I would not be quite so quickly alone at the end of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• 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
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  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  , BANANAS (Believers at New and Next and Simmons), and even one dedicated for ... questions of life and the universe). One of the great things about this ... wake up at the crack of dawn. Groups leave together on Sunday mornings

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  ']SCUFFY.[/annotation] DormCon elects new officers at the end of each semester, but any student ... [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• 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
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  T. '02. At this point, the graph of connections was already getting ... . Jakob lives in New York City, New York. They majored in math and computer ... University's Departments of Physics and Cell Biology. Fall 2001 to Spring

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  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 / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be ... having been admitted, of being at MIT. (Though, to be clear, it ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• 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
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  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

  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

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  one universe at a time. And that's OK. I am still scared of grad school ... my job offer at the finance company I worked at last summer — is very ... somewhat (including the offer that I have in front of me right now). Not

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• 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
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  .[/annotation] We make a quick pit stop at MIT as part of a field trip, and I remember the feeling of awe at the university — but also trying to figure out ... ’t think a lot about MIT — or college at all — during most of high school

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
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  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 R. '16
  • October 2, 2014