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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am ... application,” you’ll probably end up going to a university that wouldn’t benefit

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

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  'm putting my time into. I've been given so many opportunities never offered to ... probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... fifth-degree polynomial, because it's well-known that work varies as the

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Technology, one of the world's most famous universities. MIT students are some ... degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high
• 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 ... ’t offer it. I’m lucky my family is financially stable enough for me to

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

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the ... ;Register for the intensive German course at University of Zürich.  

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

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’s head designer Jony Ive recently described many university design programs ... laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... universities, namely Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  thought he’d like about MIT, like how we still offer a world-class education ... classes at a (very good) (but not as stimulating) university, and the two

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  chance of getting admitted, that these top-tier universities were way out ... says something like "It is my pleasure to offer you..." Oh. OOH. OOOH

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  though they may just live in this universe that you've created, has wants ... at places that supposedly offer a diverse and challenging working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  Sloan fellows to Singapore University of Technology and Design undergrads ... the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015
• 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 ... Stratton offering $100,000 ($1.4 million, adjusting for inflation) if

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