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  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... physics and a HASS class). Once you start skipping one class it's hard to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  cover theme or a fake-out theme, but many Hunts since have had one, like ... Universe is one of the highest-grossing media franchises. Being a superhero ... -called legitimizing authorities, like universities, museums, or the media. Perhaps

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  of the physics department, which was precisely the opposite of what I ... believe that it's difficult to fake. Maybe. I hope so, anyway, because MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  other universities to broaden our reach and provide opportunities to more students than we would be able to by ourselves."]Other Universities[/annotation] Lawrence University, WI Columbia University, NY Amherst College, MA

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... . Essentially, I was trying to stop him from dropping out of college. Without ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... University of Pennsylvania, and inside I found several brochures, and a letter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  , collected from my agenda, and others have “fake” data, collected from my memories ... stopped worrying about my agenda (and school) during my college application

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  grad student if *embodiment* (the fact that a robot has a physical body ... virtual, and one is a physical robot. Basically, what I was saying in that ... kids play this game I made with a real physical robot has vanished; MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I ... . Moving into a college dorm is a new experience with new responsibilities ... make you smile on your worst days. 3) College isn't a magical place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university’s ... apples that fall into their lives--not because they are physically unable ... . The University of Missouri incidents over the month of November started

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  college, I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation, but I wasn ... the University of Washington, then become a software engineer. So, why ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  ambitious people I know. And during the college application process, this can ... institution is like. College is a place where you'll be for the next 4-6 years ... earlier in life personally, during the college application process the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  age—you, the readers maybe, the future classes of MIT or colleges ... is the top school in my district, and gives a lot of college credits ... ."]take Physics.[/annotation] I took a small class for it during this STEM program

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to ... extracurriculars, and you can craft exquisite college essays. There are also a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  teachers about things I was interested in. Susan K. '21 and Amy K., Pomona ... and all. Other colleges across the US run educational programs too

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  way related to differences in math ability, given that college ... environment (in perhaps the same way that the taxi driver brain physically ... University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... reason to live. I stopped seeing the point of going to college and ... . It challenged me physically, mentally, and emotionally. It made me more

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... pursued summer internships in labs at universities, has been working on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... creative about exploring creativity :P). You can go broader than physical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009