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

  

  colleges. This network is brand new this academic year. “Where do you want to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... aggressive, the answer felt obvious. But I applied to colleges using the “throw

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• 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

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... launching a Facebook app called AdmissionSplash that shows prospective college ... admission data they release.   Applying to college, especially

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  earned me As in my high school and college social studies classes. Jeff had ... it came back. I practiced yoga, saw a physical therapist, got a massage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  fall semester. I finished an 8.01 Physics pset early Tuesday morning, I ... is a beautiful film, even if the physics does get artistically bent on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  , not something an college bestows upon you. Last year on Pi day, I wrote ... your happiness. College is the next step, but it didn't necessarily have to be MIT. You're going to have a wonderful, meaningful college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... college admissions process, I've gained a lot of perspective. I don't know ... happiness was contingent upon my acceptance into a college. I only realize now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling. The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  reordered the games to PG, MM, NG, EG, as PG has the most opportunity to “fake

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... well as the valuables I acquired since starting college. This basket

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  anyone I know was the week before their college applications were due, you ... App as Shanon). The best analogy that I’ve ever heard regarding college apps is this: your college application should read like a story, with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  universities. So admitted student events were already things then, although they ... 've been to four other college preview weekends, and this one was the best ... colleges." The 2003 CPW agenda was said to fill up 25 pages of the handbook

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  'm mentally and physically spent by my first semester at MIT; this time, part of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a ... : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... Psychology. With that said, invest in your own printer for college – might just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  tell you about it: It's universal; we all have it. The only people who

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... fiction). 3. How has your college decision impacted the rest of your life ... . Before college, I would make long-term plans and carry them out with my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016