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• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  a good college and proved all the haters wrong! but mine was more like ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... the things that are wrong with your work. Then college admissions season

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  side’ of academia. I am assured that not all Liberal Arts Colleges use ... point, you realized that your college experience is very different from

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college ... you learn during your time in college, it's that plans change. Who knows

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  into a selective college, but what you wanted to do more than anything ... possible for competitive college admissions. Sometimes, you really can have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , college. People asked me, I wondered, why am I working so hard if there’s no ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn ... ’t want to go to college to make money, that’s not my intent at MIT. That

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  magical phenomenon called Reg Day, where you're required to physically go to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  classes at a (very good) (but not as stimulating) university, and the two

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  college career, I’m spending my summer working in [annotation note ... , microwave-dependent college student to a burgeoning rival to Gordon Ramsay. My ... into college knowing what I wanted to major in or what skills I wanted to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  almost exclusively took AP classes. So I just assumed college was going to ... . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... multiple jobs while trying to get into college. I am nottt sure where the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  first apartment I moved into after college to move down the red line. As ... college admissions community, and I have to say, it's something that I can ... year came when I was talking to a rising college freshman about Star Wars

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  of the college search and admission process (without the misguided

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  Rhodey, implying a college friendship. Even stronger evidence is Rhodey'

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

   the next step. The same thing is true in college... for the most part. -- My ... getting ready to one day go to college, and suddenly COVID was supposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  first semester of college and can't figure out why you keep forgetting ... before college. One guy's answer, which lowkey brought tears to my eyes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  was applying to colleges - when I was a good deal more lazy than I am ... past applicants who posted their success stories on College Confidential

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... apparently suicidal man reading my college applications? There's a smart way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010