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  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  first apartment I moved into after college to move down the red line. As ... would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a ... college admissions community, and I have to say, it's something that I can

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the myriad of colleges that I applied to, I received eight interview notices

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect ... ’t always consider that college was a thing. I remember sometime during

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of 85 degrees. 12 wheels grip plywood from three directions, binding car ... for print, my first time (at least since college apps) working under a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... college as part of a larger project of intellectual discovery and ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... fifth-degree polynomial, because it's well-known that work varies as the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... years ago when I was applying to college, perhaps I would have felt the ... picks are offered admission. I beg, I plead, I make ridiculous promises

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , which you may remember from Robo-CJ writes a college app or Robo-CJ writes ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... . —Diani Jones Oh, capitalism getting a degree from a giant corporation. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  meetings every week that were higher quality than I (as a broke college ... decline the offer. The weather just happened to be beautiful.   This ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... minutes of fruitless discussion, I left the College Office, unsuccessful. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... . This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college ... with a $200 discount for being a college student, as well as a rebate on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B. A. from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey Extracurricular: Civil ... “informed that he cannot hope for the Degree next year” (he finally graduated

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . Two. When I first started out with college decisions, I had the belief ... first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , last minute SAT IIs and college applications. If there's any part of the ... college, though, there aren't any seating charts. And at first, it can be ... /science as gigantic suburban schools? I understand that going to college is not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  handful of Ivy League colleges. But it was M.I.T. that pursued him the ... basketball." But when the Ivy League universities hesitated to make an offer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  lot of pressures--MIT things, non-MIT things, college things, home ... was talking to one of my best friends, Javier W. ‘17 of Trinity College ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015