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

  

  minutes of fruitless discussion, I left the College Office, unsuccessful. I ... sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... , nearly all of my friends had a duality of passions: Chemical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I ... Internship For those of you that haven't read previous blogposts, I'm currently

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... college, MIT was on my list of “well, it’d be cool but it’ll never happen ... really good colleges. MIT is one potential future for some of you, and for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us ... universal as liking baseball, sure, but it sure is convenient that a lot of my ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  undergraduate majors MIT offers has nearly doubled since, the essence of the ... qualifications are so excellent that they are clearly acceptable, an offer of ... is not required to reply to the offer of admission until May 1, the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• 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 ... colleges and only end up paying for a few. You'll save your family a LOT of ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... 's when I remembered one of the 50 Things: 3. In college more than ever ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  version of 6.006 to tech professionals and university students in Addis ... university. They wanted to have a sort of base, similar to Mekele University ... universities near Muti that could cooperate with Drop of Water. We were then put

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  , 80% of the time. I'm glad that I made friends at other universities ... think it's important to know that your college's way of doing things isn ... of whom were from colleges I'd never heard of, and all of whom were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  questions of life and the universe). One of the great things about this ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  about colleges and universities. Many of the students I met already knew a ... high schools than most other colleges. One of the questions asked quite ... , meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006