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

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

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

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... universities, and Spencer was among 31 selected; the scholarship will fund his ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  ball was failure, stating that I wasn't good enough to complete what I ... 'm putting my time into. I've been given so many opportunities never offered to ... hobbies that made myself me. My permanent state was a state of stress

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

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

  

  education from MIT is like… Witty quips living in a state of dreaming ... 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

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

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

  

  state legislators. Their leadership has galvanized students at schools ... may in turn be reported to universities to which they applied. Indeed ... right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• 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 ... prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• 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 ... -year-old me, Deresiewicz offered a terrifying prospect. I didn’t want to be a ... job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  University of Maryland, College Park for a master’s degree, Morehouse College ... in college admissions at Rowan University in my home state of New ... research teams while completing a master’s degree at the University of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• 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 ... chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in-state

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
• 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 ... disheveledness of your dorm room/ personal appearance/ mental state attains mythic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  . Ultimately, next year instead of joining a purely research University on ... state where I literally knew no one, the people were different, the ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... 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 / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this ... about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we ... 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

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

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph ... 's, University of London MBBS) Medical doctor - physical medicine and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... computer science degree for that prestige level. I hate how I still bend to ... think that in some alternate universe, where this program is in person, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... . And then I check answers with other students and offer and receive help

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• 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?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... information contained within the universe. A small library near jlab ceases to ... universe has reasserted itself. A particular small goose is fed fois gras for

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  Missouri, a southern state university, Yale, a new england private university ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... United States is arguably becoming worse than it has been in recent years

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016