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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... , including my new life as a high school college counselor. My College

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  applications, MIT wasn’t my first choice school. I had visited colleges the ... started College Applications Round 2. Reflecting back on my college tours, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  schools and their particular needs. Right now, a small liberal arts college ... college applications and it’s my personal hope that MIT won’t be far behind ... states that Elmhurst College is committed to diversity and that if people

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  recommendation for college; b) which colleges you're applying to and why. I ... possible jump on the nerve-racking process of applying to college, as if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for ... colleges in the Northeast over three days. At the time, I was fairly undecided in which colleges I wanted to apply to. All I wanted to do was get

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  them for the last couple of months, by the way. College application time ... COLLEGE" articles, as they will only lead to panic, and we just discussed ... than the "none of the fifteen colleges I applied to will take me because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... : Applying to college is a terrifying process. The applications are all filled ... 's questions, or being painfully honest about the terror of flying to college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  're making your college decision. A bunch of them are mine, which has less to ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...s_midway.shtml College Choice Why I came to MIT (Mollie): http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...e_to_mit.shtml Making your college decision (Melis): Why Melis chose MIT http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  college essays, and apply for a million scholarships all at once. Dealing ... . Because here's the thing you shouldn't forget - you will get into college ... you will be in college, where you'll have the opportunity to really make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is ... her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... act as an Admissions Officer for a fictional College or University

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  to participate in college. But I still wanted to be active, and my dorm ... 'd love to know about it. Not the same few colleges: Bryn Mawr College

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be ... , which means I've been out of college for eight years. Every fall I ... going back, and it feels great. In college I double majored in Literature

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  it was I wanted out of college, taught me to be able to see myself ... car keys brightly decorated with a keychain from the college I chose to ... up going to my last choice college (that one of my friends even trashed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something ... towards (college) and a pretty limited set of possible experiences. By the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  ridiculously low acceptance rates of colleges like MIT. I would then from there ... which I was deferred, was because I was vigorously stalking the College ... admit looking at other people’s scores, predicting which colleges I would

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  self, myself just before entering college, I probably would have said ... colleges - go far. When I think about myself in high school, the way I ... college kids, kids who love their school and have never experienced many of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  Guy Joined a Band in College, and That Small Animal is Riding a Huge ... of my second year at college. The Show That I Thought Was Good but Then

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the comments on my post announcing the 12/17 12:17 EA decision release ... and time!   While Pharyngula on CollegeConfidential mused that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  students whose November SAT scores have not yet arrived, because the College ... College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as a college admissions officer. Occasionally, this young man had a hard

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010