Masschusetts Institute of Technology 2009!

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<p>Hey there! I decided to attend MIT next fall, and I am psyched! =) I was wondering if there were any other MIT 09ers out there (...and I'm sure there are). If so, give a shout out and a little info about yourself. </p>

<p>Location: Portland, Oregon
Prospective Major(s): Course 7 and 9
Hobbies/EC: swimming, tennis, Key Club, cooking, watching Newlyweds, Surreal Life, Best Week Ever, Boiling Point, Fabulous Life Of..., etc...
Colleges you rejected for MIT: Berkeley, Brown PLME, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, NYU, Stanford, UChicago, Yale...I may be forgetting a few...</p>

<p>I'm UBER excited about this!</p>

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<p>Check your PM ;)</p>

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<p>Location: Chicago, Illinois
Prospective Major: Course VI, German minor
Hobbies: sailing, speech team (Parliamentary Debate Club looks good), vocal music, politics
Colleges rejected for MIT: UIUC, Stanford.</p>

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<p>Location: Marlboro, NJ
Prospective Major(s): BE,9,7
Hobbies: rockin out in a ska band, tennis, debate/politics, etc
Colleges rejected for MIT: PennSt/Jefferson 6 year BA/MD, UPenn, Georgia Tech, Rutgers</p>

<p>what made you choose MIT over PLME? I similarly rejected an accelerated program for MIT and get some heat about it from people but I'm glad to see there are others :)</p>

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<p>Location: Suburbia Boston, MA
Prospectiev Major(s): 6, 15
Hobbies: sports (football, weightlifting, track), computers/programming, math/physics
Colleges rejected for MIT: I applied only to the Institvte</p>

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<p>Location: Middletown, NJ (yes, I'm one of "them")
Prospective Major(s): Course 2? PoliSci minor? It's all up in the air
Hobbies/EC: robotics-ish, field hockey, newspaper, reading, writing, randomly organizing underground projects
Colleges you rejected for MIT: Drexel, Case Western Reserve, UMaryland, Rutgers, Stevens, Columbia </p>

<p><em>adds her own category</em>
Things I'm most looking forward to trying at MIT: SAE formula, theater</p>

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<p>this is really quite sick on my part, but 2010 maybe...
Location:South shore----for those of you not in Boston area, this is south of boston in suburbia once again
Prospective Majors: Course 16
Hobbies: Flying lessons (woot!), academic decathlon, drama, sailing, clarinet (marching and concert band), robots, html
colleges if rejected: not really thinking quite yet....:P
<em>adds</em>Favorite part of MIT: The stata center</p>

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<p>I also live in the South Shore of MA, whereabouts are you?</p>

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<p>im from chicagoish suburbs. im interested in course 2</p>

<p>hobbies: music volleyball, import cars, computers, academic team, etc.</p>

<p>colleges rejected, uofi, purdue, CMU northwestern, im psyched as well!</p>

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<p>Marshfield...and yourself?</p>

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<p>Location: East Hanover, NJ
Prospective Major(s): Course 6/18
Hobbies/EC: band, swimming, playing nintendo
Colleges you rejected for MIT: Princeton (with a $22,000 grant), Cornell, Harvey Mudd, Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers.</p>

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<p>Location: Singapore
Prospective Major(s):10-XB and 7
Hobbies/EC: science research, playing the piano, chatting online, eating=)
Colleges you rejected for MIT: Yale, Stanford, Duke, Cornell.</p>

<p>Anyone intending to live at East Campus?=)</p>

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<p>Hull, good luck with that.</p>

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<p>pebbles - thanks for the PM and the welcome. I freakin' love MIT!</p>

<p>streetlight - I chose MIT over PLME because Cambridge rocks and Providence just doesn't. =) I just felt more comfortable at MIT. I want to be a doctor and PLME would have definitely been the easy route for me, but I'm willing to work hard at MIT and get into med school on my own. </p>

<p>I can't wait to meet all of you guys on campus!</p>

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<p>for those of you that decided to go to MIT and not Yale or Stanford - can you please say why? I'm having to make the same choice myself and I can't DECIDE!!!!!!!! AHH!!!!!! thank you so much!</p>

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<p>I chose MIT over both Yale and Stanford because I love Cambridge/Boston. Stanford is too close to home, and I just didn't like New Haven. While Yale and Stanford both have AMAZING campuses, I chose MIT because of the research opportunities. I want to do stuff with the brain, and it just seemed to be the perfect fit. (They're building a new brain and cog building...which is gonna open August 2005!) </p>

<p>Now, I didn't choose MIT right off the bat. I considered a lot of things, including lifestyle, fin. aid, students, academics, ECs, etc...But, MIT is in a college town whereas Yale and MIT are not. Personally, I have many more opportunties at MIT...the MGH is right next door and so is Harvard, for the liberal artsy things. I can't really explain it (sorry!), but I ultimately chose MIT because it just felt right. </p>

<p>(FYI: My dad had been pushing Stanford, and mom...Yale, but that didn't influence my decision or anything.)</p>

<p>Have you visited them?</p>

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<p>Although that's certainly the date they're giving out for the completion, I think it might be a leeeetle bit optimistic.</p>

<p>But the building is hot, isn't it?</p>

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<p>really?! well, im still pretty excited! The building is absolutely hot. It's triple-fantastic!</p>

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<p>It certainly is an interesting building. Not as 'interesting' as the Stata Center, but it certainly looks nice on the outside. :P</p>

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<p>Location: Trinidad
Prospective Major(s): 2, 6, maybe 18 as a minor/double? Who knows?
Hobbies/EC: swimming, cars, metal music, math olympiad, volunteering.
Colleges you rejected for MIT: Stanford, Caltech, UMich. I got into all the universities I applied to. :) Major ego boost.</p>

<p>MIT was the obvious choice.</p>