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  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  , college applications have rolled around—this gorgeous month usually comes ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and ... like a college student, based on the college-centric questions that they mostly asked us. How has college been? Was it hard with COVID around? What

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  between being a full time college student and spending my time with my ... college and now, 14 years from graduation, I prioritize sleep even more ... from high school? From college? If so, how do you keep up with these

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  . Yeah. We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a college application or a job ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next ... you’ll find another college that steals your heart. If you got denied

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... , it has to be extremely hot: between one and two thousand degrees

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  was called "Home Sweet College", where I had talked about being a scared ... college in Colorado, I still would have felt that displacement of "home ... after college, and supporting the big, publicly advertised galas or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps ... . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out. She offered me items like floaters—which the class normally did not use

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  wanted to take his TV station national in 1979, he offered to donate $50

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School: It's About the Match College is about much more than books and classes ... campus. I didn’t understand this when I started to look at colleges and to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  forward to college decisions season. To my surprise, touring the assorted ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... 's when I remembered one of the 50 Things: 3. In college more than ever

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... , check out the annual questions thread on College Confidential

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Nations International School, then uptown to Hunter College High School, the ... about colleges and universities. Many of the students I met already knew a ... high schools than most other colleges. One of the questions asked quite

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015