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

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• 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 / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... college trying to get a degree. 20. People have lived my life five times

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

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to 2021... When I was applying to colleges in senior year of high ... to accept a full-time job offer and graduate a year early. As for me

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• 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 ... let that go when I went to college, so I knew that I needed to minor in

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

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  emotions we feel towards college admissions decisions. https ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere ... the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• 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

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

  

  . I can only be an irresponsible college student until I graduate ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... 's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were ... say the least. The reality is that the college application process is ...  having gone through the college application process, and two years (going on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... college admissions process, I've gained a lot of perspective. I don't know ... happiness was contingent upon my acceptance into a college. I only realize now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling. The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  most of April and May- Queens' College library Enough about classes ... beauty of Cambridge! St Johns Street Clare College Cam river ... College Chapel   King's College Bridge of Sighs, St John

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The ... well as the valuables I acquired since starting college. This basket

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  anyone I know was the week before their college applications were due, you ... App as Shanon). The best analogy that I’ve ever heard regarding college apps is this: your college application should read like a story, with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  belongs to one of thirty-one colleges. I belong to a small one, Magdalene College (pronounced “Mod-Lin”). Originally constructed in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, the college was refounded in 1542. C.S. Lewis studied here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  against SUNY Geneseo 3-1, but lost the very next day to Colby College 2 ... planning on playing in college. My dad had never considered the fact that I would want to play in college, and honestly, I hadn’t thought about it

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024