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• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  . For those of you with the stomach to watch, I offer you this video ... treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... on the harsh overhead lights of an interrogation room, illuminating a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission ... measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep ... take 5-hour naps in the middle of the day. They're usually only 3 hours ... desk of an admissions officer. On Monday I went food shopping, which was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor '13 ... valedictorian Trevor Zinser reacts as an impromptu tower of paper cups collapses during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  As of one week ago, it is officially[annotation note="and oh boy does the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon ... concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  -way ticket home. There was a semblance of relief, knowing that years of toiling ... beginning of the rest of my life. But, in reality, there was none of that, as ... ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... finals (8.04 and 8.044) standing between me and two MIT degrees. I don ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  answered a lot of questions, but she also got a lot of questions, and other ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real ... of pranks. Not all pranks are hacks. Not all hacking is pulling hacks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  is 221 feet at a 75-degree angle. It reaches speeds of 77 miles per ... before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... before we left to go take some pictures. Apparently, Lord Voldemort (of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... O), biology (IBO), linguistics (IOL), and other domains of science (ISOs), the IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest ... I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at ... little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  varying degrees of involvement in extracurricular activities. There was an ... activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look ... MIT campus sits on the side of the Charles River, and the sororities and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008