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  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 ... from MIT as quickly as possible with a computer science degree, and then ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... computer science degree for that prestige level. I hate how I still bend to ... integrate into my Bachelor's degree. This is where management, graphic design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  caveats: There’s more to life than grad school. And college. And school ... haven’t even read that many college essays compared to everyone else in ... real-world skills that I didn’t get from college. I also just really

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• 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 ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... to 2021... When I was applying to colleges in senior year of high ... that come with a degree from MIT, and although these things may not be as

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... launching a Facebook app called AdmissionSplash that shows prospective college ... admission data they release.   Applying to college, especially

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  colleges. This network is brand new this academic year. “Where do you want to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... aggressive, the answer felt obvious. But I applied to colleges using the “throw

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  gone to college all over country, few of them decided to take gap, but ... Physics, I joined [a technical college] as a Computer Science student. This college was like 3000 km away from my hometown, it was so weird. I was in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... any college, public or private, work hard for four years, and end up ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  college trying to get a degree. 20. People have lived my life five times ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... took a gap year between high school and college, in which time I worked

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but ... your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion, rather than clarifies it. d) College becomes just a motion, something you ... to the general college applicant. At the same time, though, we aim to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... degree. With just a glance, you can see the CMS option has much more free

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  negative ridiculous degrees outside, plus wind chill. And so I weighed the ... . I can only be an irresponsible college student until I graduate ... , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... college application essays since junior year, took SAT/ACT prep classes and practice exams until their hands cramped, extensively researched colleges

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• 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 ... Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... belongs to one of thirty-one colleges. I belong to a small one, Magdalene College (pronounced “Mod-Lin”). Originally constructed in 1428 as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015