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  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  received other great offers of admissions from very good colleges. So you too ... As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals

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

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  college, so be proud of who you are and what you have done. No matter what ... topics: Advice on the college interview (Mitra) Advice on the application ... in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  be a significant part of this community. While entering college/MIT at ... After questions about homeschooling, one of the most frequent ... colleges as at MIT, but each year we do admit, after careful review, a number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of ... Name: Bryan G. Nance Job title: Director of Minority Recruiting ... William Penn (New Castle. Delaware) College, year, major: Norfolk State

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led ... doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  —the college application process in general—for a very, very long time. (A lot of ... of a college experience, and I was also intensely familiar with how to ... . Three days of back to back college tours is just too much. Your kids will

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  . Remember, college is mostly what you make of it, here or anywhere else; if ... . As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space ... know that this process can be a complicated one. For those of you who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  Event Outreach Chair of MIT's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - one of ... MIT Society of Women Engineers: The Exploring Majors Fair. "Through ... opportunity to explore a diverse number of science, math, and engineering fields

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  of figuring out this whole "let's apply to college!" deal. If that ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  'll be reading them this week and posting some of them next week. Good ... movie adaptation of the book about the MIT Blackjack Team. Kevin Spacey is ... was elected mayor of Edison; 2. Michael Rodburg '68 has been named

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  Growing up in the Midwest, my "beach" experiences consisted of the sands of Lake Michigan or small lakes in Wisconsin and Michigan. Living (or going to college) in the Boston area is a real luxury because the

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor-filled college admissions discussion sites; this one made me laugh out loud: I ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  away. Who were a world separate from the encompassing universe of college ... application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... . The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  to. College will be what you make of it, no matter what school you ... things are becoming clear to me. This time of year my life has long been full of finding out about the lives of those who are applying to MIT and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and ... students whose November SAT scores have not yet arrived, because the College

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main point of these meetings is for us to learn about the things that interest

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006