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  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  away from school, especially at dinners with family friends that ... think it's often overlooked how easy it is to graduate high school without ... decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to ... 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

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying ... your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... lie. Our friends had come in from jobs and graduate school all over

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i ... friends have called me, and messaged me, unprompted, offering me support

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  find them! School will inevitably become busy, and difficult, and ... senior year of high school, and everything that came with it - classes ... , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  , engineering, business, or anything, really, you will experience this even more ... , skill, and perseverance. It depends more on you than on the school you go ... school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  [annotation note="cj: stressed out, busy, lots of things to do, idk ... vide the roll in rabbit bone stock at 139 degrees Fahrenheit for 4 hours. Chill roll, then slice into desired thickness. Bake at 375 degrees

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  day of school; afterwards, I had planned to split my time between two ... things you never did in high school, like turning in psets? Cut yourself ... every MIT student"]those who like to keep themselves busy,[/annotation] it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  -and-done type of person. I thought that, after about 16 years of school, there was no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out ... would go to graduate school (5 years down the line) but that it definitely

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  different states visiting different graduate schools, and realized that home ... class of cancer therapeutics worked. I’d say grad school at MIT is a ... school that none of my teachers in high school thought I should be going to

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... difficult (and still is difficult), but I did it. And I called every school I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... high school friends, getting to do undergraduate research is a pretty big ... accepted me immediately and the third offered me a UROP but no money, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  biotechnology. I have yet to hear about a school that offers such a comprehensive ... was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM: "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  they easily approachable any time of the day? (cz in my high school, we tail them throughout the school until they're cornered and then attack ... at MIT...will it?) Melissa similarly queried: I'm coming from a school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  , five years already!). After my high school graduation in 2011, I decided to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... it: Do well in school. Take tough classes. Interrogate your beliefs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... , towards the end of the first trimester of high school senior year, I was ... had been routine process for my high school (which was partly owned by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... either and are primarily interested in business, or architecture, or ... in their spare time since they were in middle school. They don't really

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless ... dollar bills. “How’s school going?” Her voice formed the shape of ... could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019