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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... , Professor Sive, indeed. 10:00pm: John '98 asks when I'm going to get around ... Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Online Tools Additional Opportunities that Offer Financial Aid ... .mit.edu Description: A public library of courses offered by MIT with publicly available ... : Code.org  Link: code.org Description: A free website that offers a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... challenged their societies’ strict gender roles. helen oliver aka john oliver ... 's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• 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 / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... motivation to apply to a great school like MIT or any other top university, you ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... , there are no credit restrictions. MIT will no longer offer Early ... representatives, we asked questions and offered our own experiences to shape all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• 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 / 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

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

  

  to your peers. Everyone at MIT has something to offer (you do too ... your major when you have a diploma in hand. Tattoos and piercings are ... receive my MIT diploma. -Yul

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  up in Lagos, Nigeria and immigrates to the United States for university ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... breath of fresh air. Julia 149 West Market St in Newark, New Jersey holds a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... . Entertainment. The closest major city to my town is St. Louis, which is two hours ... research in neuroscience) offered me a position in her lab. I spent a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or ... than biking on the shoulder On the other hand, much of Vassar St (another

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Astronomy (with Anna Frebel, who studies the early universe, works on discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us

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

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

  

  experiences at pretty much any university. The funny thing is, individually ... their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... considerable challenge at other universities. I've never, ever been very

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  in the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.']history of comic ... Universe is one of the highest-grossing media franchises. Being a superhero ... -called legitimizing authorities, like universities, museums, or the media. Perhaps

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  somewhere else. Press onwards.   November 1st has always been like a January 1st to me. It's always defined a new direction for my life. Three Novembers 1st's ago, I submitted my MIT application and saw my life change a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  bouquet, Or offer a market assessment, Of the future of Valentine's Day. We ... ="That February, there was a day that was 70 degrees out. It's amazing how warm ... john’s “im still standing” repeated 50 times oh to be a small puppy

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• 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