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• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere ... the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  to his craft. This is how you write a fabulous college essay. "What ... substantial amount of college essays, but I have a couple things to say on the ... said "hey, I want to do this for my college application". Look for things

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I ... and tracking progress on your college apps. I'll also show you some examples of how I use Notion! College Application Tracking Example Back in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... has truly hit me. Not yet, at least. I still feel like a college student ... . I have been a college student now for 4 years, but I didn’t always

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The ... .) Learn how to adult (Wait, am I actually telling you to prepare for college ... laundry you’re welcome), in college, this is a necessary skill. Cleaning

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  college freshman boys, I joined it anyway, and it soon changed - even became ... . Students could not friend students at other colleges. In fact, most colleges ... Ruckus has given way to Billabong. Like a scruffy college graduate who has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... learn in college, anyhow?" By his account she is an intelligent girl with ... you feel like you've learned anything in college?" She was genuinely

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  to talk to you about college decisions and my own experience. When I applied to college, all I knew is that I was going to college, and hopefully ... on the weekend. With that said, I began applying to colleges where I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  colleges as at MIT, but each year we do admit, after careful review, a number ... be a significant part of this community. While entering college/MIT at ... college is what makes the most sense. With these students' applications, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  William Penn (New Castle. Delaware) College, year, major: Norfolk State ... college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of ... essay telling us what you want to do after college (E.g. I want to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  /teenage/youngadulthood years preparing for getting into a competitive Ivy League college. Let me ... about. It was the Johns Hopkins University Pre-College Summer Program, basically a program where you pay a lot of money to live on a college campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  belongings I hauled to campus my first year of college was a cleaver carefully ... and extraordinary offerings, in a way I find both incredibly rare and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... supposed to meet in college. And we were like “let’s just forget it” and took ... canonically they did meet in college?”] Yes. [laughing continues] But I would

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... 's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the ... reached out for all sorts of reasons—to express concern, offer a monitor

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  . And yet, I think it's the most honest sentiment I can offer at this time ... REX events. I'm going to need to offer advice to incoming first years

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... offering for when I want a chili & lime snack without the tears.  

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... FLC has done a great job with offering freshmen new cultural experiences

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us ... ! Every day, and from all over the world, we receive offers of lucrative

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016