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  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  college admission process. Give them MIT’s list of qualities and start

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  evening right before a college semester starts: hanging out with friends who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  one of my good friends at Wellesley College told me a year ago. Grades

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  -reported grades match what is on your transcript. If you have taken college, online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions, for one thing. MIT finals, for another (AHHHH). Deadlines for regular decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty With Data, CC poster mihcal1 made the following compelling comment: So basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  staff are about to enter college. One of them was first introduced to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  Naviance, teachers should see MIT on the list of colleges to which these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  all, if you have leftover pizza, you're doing college wrong. But let

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  international college students to teach their local high school students the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  glad I'm not at home, and many other typical college experiences. Today

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  meaningless, which confirms my suspicion that the College Board has been

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  -story. Being the broke college students we are, we wanted the cheapest possible

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  colleges, but I also love the rigors of science, which I grew up with, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  . Admittedly, it's a relief to step away from college for a few days and taste

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  colleges next March. It was hard to leave the festival. I mean this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult, or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  anyway, I resolved to appreciate my freshman year of college as much as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006