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• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... launching a Facebook app called AdmissionSplash that shows prospective college ... admission data they release.   Applying to college, especially

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions ... was quite confused during my own college application process. Although ... , neither had attended college themselves and couldn't be as helpful as they

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  colleges. This network is brand new this academic year. “Where do you want to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... aggressive, the answer felt obvious. But I applied to colleges using the “throw

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

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  gone to college all over country, few of them decided to take gap, but ... Physics, I joined [a technical college] as a Computer Science student. This college was like 3000 km away from my hometown, it was so weird. I was in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  . But, I realized that before coming to college, I took my home ... college I realized that the dishwasher is on a long list of things that make ... for the college students, you are not alone. 1) Parents- Yes, they nag

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  college admissions-themed scholarship competition. The first of six episodes ... give the winner a college education from a top-rated school of their ... ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... tomatoes) Steps: Preheat the oven to 425 or 450 degrees Fahrenheit ... when other people offer them to you, like almost all of the guys I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... , and single-digit-with-windchill-in-the-negative-twenties to 46-degrees-and-kinda-sunny weather shifts (throwback to my first Boston winter when I though 26 degrees

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at Aerospace ... you can graduate with an Aero/Astro degree from MIT :) (a typical ... that my full attentions will turn to a course 8 degree. Hey hey don't get

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... the part where it’s currently 77 degrees in South Florida, while here it’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  graduated from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984. Clara is a Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... the same thing. When I got there, I was just some college kid who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... received rejection letters from some subset of the colleges that you applied

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  Sheng Ler Mei. The show is targeted towards college students, and basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities in Taiwan with different majors and they discuss a bunch of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  college choice. She starts things off with the following from golfer Kelli Keuhne: "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... helpful before deciding which college to attend. Ask yourself the important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at ... , that I do not need a master's degree in CMS, as tempting as it sounds"]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  a master's degree. Let me tell you -- time flies. For me, the MIT ... . Regardless of what you major in, or how many degrees you leave with, or what ... Barkowitz. I will never forget how far above and beyond they went to offer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  the best steak in the world, guaranteed or I'll give you my diploma

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  diplomas, as the ceremony was coming to an end. Frosh, welcome to MIT. You

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011