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• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  have no chance @ this according to r/applyingtocollege and/or college ... ’t make the college app cut:  someone unsure and insecure. i had no idea ... dream college. institution soulmates or whatever xx and i had a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  here’s the (very long winded) beginning of my college experience, through ... my senior year both stressing over and romanticizing college life ... high school, I would make jokes with friends that once in college I could

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  make a college staple: pasta. We were cooking for six people, but we ... another college. We met last June at a summer camp, and they were visiting ... together. In the fall, college felt very rush rush rush to me. I had a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  college students + staying up way too late = everything from cookies to ... ’s talk about the real cooking equation: kitchens + hungry college students ... going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  , I had to meet new people, I had to go on exciting College Adventures ... that there is a correct way to do college (and life in general): a neat ... ’s college experience is different, but I don’t think I really internalized

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... went to an art college. She'd probably be just as tired and her posture ... at a college art program. Because charcoal is a blunt stick, as opposed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... want after college. i wanted to cry after they said that, because it was ... what to do after college, i have realized that i don’t understand myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  left home for college.  I used to measure his height through its ... , they broke up during her junior year of college. Near the end of her time ... prerequisites. I had helped him revise his college applications. But now he was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  semester, that MIT had parties like any other college, and that MIT wasn ... 'll do in industry, and about my life after college, I tell myself: I'm a ... where to apply, or where to go to college. I'm lying, but by these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  told me this was the best semester of college they’ve had so far, and the ... trying over and over for most of high school and my first year of college ... people and social interactions in college i still only looked for new stem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  becoming something permanent and fixed. As I entered college, where the ... are we going to live?" or "What should we do after college?" I can ... myself, that I began to feel trapped. As we went off to college, things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  years. Something about college that I didn’t expect is that college is ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  see from the two measly tags (Colleges and Scholarships). Pros Easy ... after college apps were over since I wanted to track things like working ... college, no one gives a fuck. Managing your tasks digitally saves so much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  centered my self-worth around academics and college admittance. So, imagine my shock when I began college and discovered many new, unfamiliar ... , relationships, personalities, values, etc. that I was not aware of before college

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city ... . College changed me to be the person I always was. It also revealed just how ... college made was reveal knowledge of who I am, which made me comfortable. Of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  director of studies at your college who you can talk to about these kinds of ... be formals, which are these three course dinners that each college hosts during the week. My friends and I went to Jesus College formal a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  . "Why did you pick MIT over the bajillion other colleges out there ... intellectual stimulation. I didn't want college to be just a continuation of high ... colleges, but culture is really a tangible thing that you can compare. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  use college as an opportunity to expand my horizons and meet other kinds ... probably take literature classes in college without taking literature classes in high school, but good luck trying to take math classes in college

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  , generally speaking, college admissions has become more meritocratic over time ... are more people going to college than every before In our data ... selective college admissions on the other - were a bit depressing. However

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  transportation! And things to see! If you've got MIT on your list of colleges, you ... Common (and nearby Public Garden), Emerson College, the Wilbur Theatre, and ... easily spend all of the money that you didn't spend on college stuff and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010