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  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion, rather than clarifies it. d) College becomes just a motion, something you ... to the general college applicant. At the same time, though, we aim to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... degree. With just a glance, you can see the CMS option has much more free

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... college application essays since junior year, took SAT/ACT prep classes and practice exams until their hands cramped, extensively researched colleges

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  statement, transcript, 2-page resume and between 6-8 letters of recommendation

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  a good college and proved all the haters wrong! but mine was more like ... Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... belongs to one of thirty-one colleges. I belong to a small one, Magdalene College (pronounced “Mod-Lin”). Originally constructed in 1428 as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  embarrassingly naive about college admissions. I had only a few ideas about colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have ... across College Confidential. At first, it seemed like a rare gem - a unique

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  College Confidential reaffirmed a lot of these beliefs in high school. If you have not heard of College Confidential, good for you. College Confidential is an online forum where parents and students discuss college

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  that a college thousands of miles away would send me mail of this ... CollegeConfidential links to angst-filled posts covering the spectrum of ... find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am ... so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... changed and split apart. College applications are tiny in comparison to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... college admissions and life at my internet home, which, contrary to popular

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  age—you, the readers maybe, the future classes of MIT or colleges ... is the top school in my district, and gives a lot of college credits ... there. College wear... Right now, I've got West Point and [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... apparently suicidal man reading my college applications? There's a smart way ... , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... them into college, but instead based on values and interests that are ... might impact their college applications. We do not expect or prefer any

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  's exactly what you hope to do when choosing where to attend college. The same ... are the same ones you should seek out when deciding which college communities to join. Remember, you are not attending a college simply to study

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it ... offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  an admissions guru (lolz) when I was still in college, I offer the same ... yourself. 2. Be prepared. In my previous blog post, I offered a few pointers ... - I wore hoodies too to my own college interviews :P but just know this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013