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• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  basketball." But when the Ivy League universities hesitated to make an offer ... as an all-State player at Heritage High School in Littleton, Colo., where he drew recruiting attention from Division II universities and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  university has to offer are unparalleled relative to anything I’ve seen before ... could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning

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

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria ... the States was prefixed by living with my aunt and her family in ... States, I’ve tried a variety of cuisines--Thai, Indian, Chinese

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 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 ... decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors

  • 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!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... you don't get personal attention at research universities? I leave with ... replication and protein synthesis! My postdoc and I discuss the state of our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  six or so other people. The people who were out-of-state were carpooling ... negative ridiculous degrees outside, plus wind chill. And so I weighed the ... , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• 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 / 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

  “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 / 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 / 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