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  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 ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the different paths our lives can take. One of them was from a student whom we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College ... College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all ... . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere

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

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  look at it. College decisions are not a reflection of your personal merit ... rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their ... , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  College Confidential reaffirmed a lot of these beliefs in high school. If you have not heard of College Confidential, good for you. College ... . Admittance to a top college seemed like the culmination of a successful

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  scheme of things that is your life, your undergraduate college experience ... emotions we feel towards college admissions decisions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics

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

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have ... online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... colleges I had a chance at getting into. It’s too bad all of those answers

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• 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 ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends, assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The

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

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , last minute SAT IIs and college applications. If there's any part of the ... colleges and only end up paying for a few. You'll save your family a LOT of ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  you will learn in college is The Value of Friendship. I have a friend ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... from home will change, but don’t let the excitement of college ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... 't feel pleasant. Not at all. But negative *college* decisions were ... decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to

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

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  best of your college years no matter where you go!"   Burton ... to be, regardless of where you end up for college. Have faith in ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  college admissions process, I've gained a lot of perspective. I don't know ... , whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of the organizers tally the results. No post-college, pre-50 female

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 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 ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• 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 ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008