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  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Many of ... college, and they're understandably nervous about what the next few months ... up at a good college doing something I loved once the whole application

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  College Women Competition. At Oxford, Melis will do the M.Sc. in integrated ... when she was among 32 college students from across the country, including ... University in England. "I'm tremendously excited," Anahtar, 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  diversity is to 'relax the standards'. I can't speak for other Colleges/Universities ... received other great offers of admissions from very good colleges. So you too

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  : Several people have wondered about taking AP and college credits to MIT. Is ... pretty well in high school calc or physics, you may want to get the credit ... learned physics since it pretty much sucks at my high school. So what's your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  offspring about the College Process. I must say that they have handed ... entry has been on my mind since this time last year. My college roommate ... less than 6 months your child will go off to college. Complicating

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  alternate universes featuring the band. It felt like forever until I had ... education and university, yet even with all that's offered, I'm still unsure ... that in the grand scheme of things, college is merely a blip in my life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  . Absolutely. Soon, my friend George (a second-year at Imperial College in London ... women talked about their Little Shop of Physics, which travels around ... think about the universe, or find a treatment for cancer, or solve the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  also knew a lot of people from college who took the path you described ... at hacklodge, a one-week program where ~20 college students live in a ... also holds in fields like drug development and particle physics, though i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  angsty thoughts about life/the universe/everything posts) and reuse them in ... ’t F*** This Up”). New planner! Because I’m all grown up and in college ... your soul. The physical manifestation of the focus of the They Might Be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  colleges really interact/hang out? The first part is harder than the second ... applying for University this year and I have no idea where to apply, besides MIT. What are some other good schools with good physics and computer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  about. It was the Johns Hopkins University Pre-College Summer Program, basically a program where you pay a lot of money to live on a college campus ... /teenage/youngadulthood years preparing for getting into a competitive Ivy League college. Let me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... Universe but also might possibly be a magician, because: In 10 minutes he ... 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus 12 units 8.01 - Physics (Mechanics) 12

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  ; the way she embodied each and every character fully, both physically and ... Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of genetics at Boston University; and Becky ... University. The discussion was insightful, reflective, blunt, and optimistic

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  Moines looks the same as my audience in Paris. As this is a college ... state school and thrive! You can go to a community college and thrive! A lot of people just don't go to college at all and yet they thrive

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  . (Sorry Yankees fans.) More blogging advice from me about the college ... see the college process from the point of view of a dad and not just that of an admissions officer. In fact, we made our first college visit

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  college fairs. The largest was held at Columbia University, in New York City ... known as the college application process. In some ways this entry ... , better known as College Admissions. Instead I will discuss real issues that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... from two years ago. In increasing numbers, colleges are wooing their ... to be able to make their college decision (I know I needed every last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  come to mind). And beyond the semester for me has been the college experience itself, watching an electrifying dance at Boston University ... several physical and non-physical aspects of the Institute. We were

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  to my next class: "Topics in Modern Physics," 48 kids. Different kids ... with a few of them and discuss majoring in physics at MIT. I realize that I'm already a junior in college and must seem very old to these high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012