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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  college crew. Seeing another academic system, one where much more emphasis ... at other colleges. The reason? The exchange program is really excellent ... students. The MIT program put me in a college just like any other Cambridge

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  disturbing article today. Reality-television-culture meets college admissions ... that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  offspring about the College Process. I must say that they have handed ... entry has been on my mind since this time last year. My college roommate ... less than 6 months your child will go off to college. Complicating

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes ... the majority) had no college classes. The most common AP's taken were in ... want to, or simply because you think it will get you into college

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  molecules do a perfect job: they rotate the light wave 90 degrees, so that all ... light is rotated a bit, but not the full 90 degrees required for all of it ... light the full 90 degrees.) G: 50% (all of the green subpixels are letting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  working on your college applications instead. But since you’re already here ... relatives you totally didn’t forget about! a tenth of a college textbook! The ... essays before submitting. Enjoy your break. No, refreshing College

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  today, effectively inaugurating another college admissions cycle. Now ... ? Now, I'm on record as saying that the college essay is often one of ... . '11's excellent post Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  students are the first generation of their family to go to college. We also ... disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in 2005 57% of college students were female), we've come pretty close to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  't find much, decides to make things juicy by adding "CollegeConfidential" to the search* *Gags at the cesspool that is CollegeConfidential while wading through it* OMG guys! You made a CollegeConfidential thread about

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  about this they'd send me packing. Now here I am in college in probably ... . You're in college now." Here's the catch. It's MIT, a place with as many ... . But that's what college is about. I'm still figuring it out myself, but

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it ethical? You do need to let other colleges know by May 1, and you should ... case you don't get in off the waitlist. Those colleges will likely

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  Services Center offers students the opportunity to volunteer in its numerous ... policies and programs” (MIT Course Catalog). The living groups offer unique ... words of wisdom for survival at MIT. MIT offers many workshops, programs

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  ever offered a choice on what to do with my hair anyway. I gave it up ... alternative”. And, even if I look back at old college photos and laugh out of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  the last semester it was offered, or an official practice that the ... Final Exam Study Schedule - College Info Geek" by Thomas Frank "Study

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... -approval, and it offers good coverage if you need to go outside the network. It

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the ... college apps. A lot of universities have January 1st deadlines, and that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... deaths A few state schools, two or three smaller colleges, maybe MIT ... -or-treating, but maybe I’ll go to a party with friends On College Confidential

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  Moines looks the same as my audience in Paris. As this is a college ... state school and thrive! You can go to a community college and thrive! A lot of people just don't go to college at all and yet they thrive

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  the grocery guide posted in May. This time, she writes about college ... why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college ... derivatives and conjugate French verbs. College admissions has become a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  -based college math competition held on the first Saturday of December. The ... college than in high school, in part because college students are often the ... the primary math competition for college students, and contestants don

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016