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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to ... cultural match to an institution. And I think fit is even more important in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• 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 ... Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university’s ... Missouri, a southern state university, Yale, a new england private university ... ) at MIT to show solidarity and support for the University of Missouri

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  your major when you have a diploma in hand. Tattoos and piercings are ... , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his words, such as Things #1, #35, and #50, have gotten me through hard times

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  stress.   And there is also a fourth degree, but, well, there's no ... week after week, the cleaning staff will eventually get tired and stop cleaning them. Frozen grapes are really delicious, and keep basically

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... students who came to the Institute despite historical and geographical ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  replication and protein synthesis! My postdoc and I discuss the state of our ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  of getting into a selective university is a clear and validating ... universities. I emailed some professors, and I don’t remember anyone responding ... age and attended the same university but weren’t as successful. I really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  said "And now, the President of the United States, Barack Obama!" (not an ... 's unit? Unless he officially rebukes this and offers an alternative unit ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  world into one big energetic THWAP. And so I make myself busy over the ... ??? And NOT ENOUGH SPACE??? IT'S OVERWHELMING!!! Unfortunately, I don ... and not enough time??? TOO MANY TIME COMMITMENTS AND NOT ENOUGH TIME

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  : That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... EC Gothic, authored by East Campus, the residents and the mailing list ... decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's castle. And not just a tour through a stately gothic castle, but a long and ... degrees and your bare feet are sizzling on the pavement and you're sprinting ... emerging on the other side with friends and a degree. —fray getting a nice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  contest held by the United States Treasury and the grand prize was getting ... public science and engineering magnet high school that runs an annual admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• 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 ... and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I ... against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... gender bias) and use our institutional power to actively resist using AI in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... offered and at the same time. He was talking about the things they were ... instructive, that we often refer to universities as 'institutions.' Though that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019