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• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  something to offer and something to learn—it’s how every class year gets built ... into “adult” things when it's “college no parents.” Don’t feel the ... -campus, find out which museums offer free admission to students. You can even get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  MIT culture. I couldn't ask for anything more from my college experience ... .stackexchange.com, StackExchange offered me an applied math internship in New York which I ... worth it. Most of the benefit you'll derive from your college experience

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... liberal arts college. For starters the LSAT is based on logic, which is ... as I have for that college down the road, I have to admit that my best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and ... of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed ... : College Admissions and the Public Interest continues to help admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  this one IB exam, and my school doesn't offer it. My school offers very ... is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... could, for example, self-study, or take the class at a local college. 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  friendships for a degree, but I think you have to understand there's much more ... you and offer you guidance where you struggle, and when they struggle

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  M.Eng that gives you both a bachelor's and master's degree in five ... different classes offered and I really want to dabble in video game design and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  universities, the degree to which labs here are open to discussion and the ... , that includes inexperienced freshmen with little more to offer than

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... 95 degrees. After our fun-filled 3rd, the 4th got off to a relatively

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  purely academic high school. So, we really wanted college to have classes ... to other local colleges! There is a blog section of our website where ... classes offered through course 4, which are very cool, but these are fairly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  : My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... to buy college things with my dad, possibly the trip when I forgot what ... . I will hopefully be graduating in a year or two with both degrees. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... on entering college. So click away! If you’re like me, then in the weeks preceding college you’re frantically reading everything ever on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  has to offer and talk to professors who do everything. (I talked to ... see, very concretely, the huge range of opportunities that are on offer ... grateful. 😅 But still, the people are fundamentally what make every college

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  any class like this offered at MIT (of couse, Harvard doesn't really offer 5.13 or 5.310 either, and so because MIT splits them into two ... in college are definitely not like languages in high school. Yeah, they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  've studied MIT's course offerings extensively - multiple times! - while planning out my four years of college even though I haven't even finished ... . Much to my language-loving little heart's dismay, MIT doesn't offer

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  professors that I have something to offer... when in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... entire student, not *just* the academics, and the college experience is not

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  ). I interviewed with Morgan, and he offered me the job on the spot, so I ... check this out. Ben offered me the blog job because he'd seen me posting on College Confidential... and I started posting on CC because there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college ... college essay is yours. For more, see this writing advice from Chuck ... passions. Highlight quirks. You can’t fit everything into a college essay, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College ... College, and then home safe by the gentle hour of 6:30AM. All this, dear ... college stories to cat applications, or some amalgamation of those, and she

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  ! Fast-forward four months. Not only did she apply to the College of ... exponentially throughout the college application process. The young lady that I ... 's family... but in many ways every student of color that I admit to college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006