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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... on entering college. So click away! If you’re like me, then in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  Summer Science Research Program (HSSSRP) Michigan State University High ... programs AwesomeMath Canada/USA Mathcamp Hampshire College Summer Studies in ... Young Scientists (PROMYS) The Ross Program Stanford University

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  the annual conference of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling (NEACAC), hosted by Boston's Northeastern University ... on Admissions," presented by Amherst College Dean of Admissions Tom

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  collected by ASEE from 478 ABET-accredited colleges or universities, MIT ranks ... attend college, and did not accompany me to campus. In fact, the first time ... in Queens — was about to begin my college education at the most famous

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  myself at a local university, working in a neuroscience lab through a high ... . I decided that, moving forward into college, I didn't want to choose ... intersection.[/annotation] As my summer in the lab ended, the college

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is looking forward to beginning her university studies this fall, so I have ... time to be concerned about building your college admissions resume, or

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as ... MIT or your other choice university -- or you need to appeal your award ... them. I was tutored in physics by a future Nobel Prize winner, had long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is ... things in red cups just like the rest of the nation's college students. The ... . "Oh my gosh! I'm in college now! I can do whatever I want! Heehee, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their ... college is the big, spacious rooms where lectures take place. When I imagined college in high school, I imagined being in one of these huge halls

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for ... on more college admissions decisions (and/or maybe happen to like ... senior. Applying to college! Well, she’s waiting to hear back from colleges

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  doing her Masters in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University ... "Talento Joven". MIT students collaborated with Costa Rican university ... to see them going on to college and pursue that love. It's the MIT

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  I knew was that I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know what college ... didn’t let myself be seen as dumb in homework sessions. So… I faked it ... , I found that “faking it” worked. a) My first year I went straight

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  University, where for six weeks, I've be living and working with middle school

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  independent research. I'm a physics buff and over the last four years, I ... perpetual motion machine is flawed, as I believe in the laws of physics; and ... from MIT, as you will have succeed in upending the entire physics canon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  better. Colleges and universities need to do a better job of centering ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  consists of women from MIT, Harvard University, and Wellesley College ... : Babson College, Bentley College, Brandeis University, Harvard University ... , NPHC & NALFO college chapters are intercollegiate meaning; the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did ... institution. the university that is on the lips and minds of so many people ... [annotation note="8.01 = Physics 1 18.01A = Calculus 1 3.091 = Intro to Solid

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  academic summer program: you take one or two three-week long college ... on topics in physics, astronomy, calculus, and programming (Python). We ... -acquired physics/astronomy/calculus/programming skills to calculate its orbit. That

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  ," "computer science," or "physics." If you know anything about MIT, you ... Engineering and Computer Science 7: Biology 8: Physics 9: Brain and Cognitive ... arbitrary letter. Flexible physics is 8B but flexible mechanical engineering

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the ... .   But the same is true for college essays, as Orwell doubtlessly ... Applications. The sad truth is that most college application essays are not very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012