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

  

  right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college ... to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... college—every connection you make, no matter how brief, will leave a mark

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... , along with my awesome notebook of class notes from Dubliners, Portrait

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you ... college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  , not something an college bestows upon you. Last year on Pi day, I wrote ... your happiness. College is the next step, but it didn't necessarily have to be MIT. You're going to have a wonderful, meaningful college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to ... extracurriculars, and you can craft exquisite college essays. There are also a

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

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... lots more in the future! :) 18. Visit four other Boston-area colleges ... that don't know, BOSE offers discounts on all their products to current

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• 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 ... didn't go away like headaches should.   You hear it a lot. College ... professor gave me the full allotted time. "I was in college once, too," he

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  'm putting my time into. I've been given so many opportunities never offered to ... "prove" something, I let that nearly ruin my college experience with too ... probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• 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 ... integrate into my Bachelor's degree. This is where management, graphic design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  caveats: There’s more to life than grad school. And college. And school ... haven’t even read that many college essays compared to everyone else in ... real-world skills that I didn’t get from college. I also just really

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• 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 / 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 / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• 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 ... any college, public or private, work hard for four years, and end up ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the

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

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  college trying to get a degree. 20. People have lived my life five times ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... took a gap year between high school and college, in which time I worked

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but ... your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009