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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard college dorm room can be summed up by this picture. This might be because my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  them for the last couple of months, by the way. College application time ... than the "none of the fifteen colleges I applied to will take me because ... This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  year of college.) In my case, I took two years off and arrived on campus ... investigate anything about college! MIT endorses the taking of "gap years ... , college is an amazing place to be, and lots of exciting things happen here

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• 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…

  

  lot of people just don't go to college at all and yet they thrive ... every kind of place. This whole college admissions game is so contrived ... On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  reported, "IT IS SO TRUE. Love. It. So. Much." Dozens of colleges ... Lord, dean of admissions at Haverford College, which posted student ... From The New York Times (check out the awesome photo of Paul, Jess

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  transferring. College is a blur of events that’ll leave you wondering where the ... This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can ... enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... 't always obvious. Other important factors in your college decisions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  to college is as meaningful for you as it was for me. A big part of the reason I'm an admissions blogger now is because of the college application ... /colors of the columns to match your college preferences. There's another tab

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -6 weeks of deliberations. If you attended college, the process has changed ... Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted

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

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so ... the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... important in this world. And for all this passionate pursuit of excellence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  by being a tour guide at my alma mater. I loved college and all of the ... of the things you discover as you go through your college exploration ... Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... deaths A few state schools, two or three smaller colleges, maybe MIT... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  section. In March, Les Perelman attended a national college writing ... one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... only did so because of pressure from elite colleges. Or arrange

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... something in MIT's favor: even though we have 41 varsity sports, and ~20% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  preperations, and on top of ALL of THAT, you are applying to college. Whewww ... between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost ... in the right direction….. ……eventually found the Hollywood Walk of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... admissions. It is a part of the admissions process. We colleges recognize and ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and ... and L.L.Bean duck boots are popular.  Since I do a lot of hiking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as a college admissions officer. Occasionally, this young man had a hard ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010