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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  reason to live. I stopped seeing the point of going to college and ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  applications and the emotional rollercoaster of this college application process ... means having a college list with a mix of colleges that you're really ... very helpful in many aspects of life. However, during the college

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... of this and other hacks. Other sources: “That Was College Life!” by ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... newly-made College of Computing, and much, much more. As student ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was ... system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;Register for the intensive German course at University of Zürich.   ... ;Accept your room offer in one of the student houses and wire the required ... college has to offer without overworking or stressing yourself out to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of 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 sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph ... 's, University of London MBBS) Medical doctor - physical medicine and ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... concentration of college students. There are more colleges than I can count in the ... Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  perspectives of undergrads and grads as well as non MIT college experiences ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... college experience be any different? Of course, it is different because it ... ensure that the central focus of the college search and application process

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... most of April and May- Queens' College library Enough about classes ... beauty of Cambridge! St Johns Street Clare College Cam river

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  actually end it! Think of it as the universe guiding you along the messy ... statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors ... 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

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted ... colleges. After about 5 picoseconds of staring at my acceptance letter from ... means of the Internet), I accepted my offer of admission. You already know

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015