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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Affairs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington ... spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen ... busy teaching me to not be fazed by anything. This is how experience

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  picking out her sweet joint degree Melis on -- oh wait she basically already ... : grad schools couldn't care less about your nontechnical GPA. No, really ... Course catalog Degree requirements (mysteriously titled 'course catalog

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were ... inspiring. I remember thinking: in 2004, the greatest technology school in the ... using html tables and virtually no css. Despite the old-school nature of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  am waiting on grad school decisions, which is feels a little more nerve ... stopped and freaked out a few times. grad school has been a dream of mine ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by ... art course or build huts in Peru, but if you left school because illness ... business fair. Students pass on foot, on bikes. The doors to the student

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... dawn of the decade, I was still in middle school. Halfway through my seventh grade year (which was actually my first school year in Yonkers

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  specializing as a striker since high school. Her profile on the MIT ... school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of ... school year starts. Even after school starts, they practice for two hours

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  was rejected by every school, but then she got that fateful tube in the ... got into every school ever! or No one believed in her until she got into ... She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  consumes your life during your senior fall of high school, applying to internships during the school year is quite nearly a full-time job. And just ... with on-sites tend to miss about two or three days of school, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy ... applicants. I can't speak for other schools, but if you are making a pure ... was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  have even had AP Biology offered at your school. It is these differences ... difficult schools to get into and you have achieved something that is by no ... school -- why not take a break and relax knowing that MIT is in your pocket

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... -affiliated individuals.  During her senior year of high school, AudreyRose, who lives in ... receiving an offer.  Joining D9 organizations also provided many leadership

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists ... state legislators. Their leadership has galvanized students at schools across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to finally separate myself from her in college. With good reason—in high school ... fucking insecure. I trudged through high school with the belief that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  school class, and the first male valedictorian in 10 years -- he's not a ... his dad's construction business. He built some pretty nice roofs. He ... together, and when he was in high school they liked to make rockets, too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  school, I knew college applications were coming up and that everyone in my high school was expected to apply somewhere. I talked with my dad a ... schools that were affordable and seemed okay academically, wrote a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  kids. kids who start their own businesses at nineteen, twenty years old ... and then put back together again”, it’s never about a school. it’s about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  people from other schools, from totally different backgrounds, with more ... that I think in school years and not calendar years!). After graduation ... school. I spent IAPs on intense competitions and winter internships. I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... . —Diani Jones Oh, capitalism getting a degree from a giant corporation. The ... . —anonymous getting an education from a school that is not a school. It's like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020