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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  proficiency has been scored is the PEAU, which is offered by the college board for students who are interested in applying to colleges in Puerto Rico ... across the country. I have one child applying to colleges now, and three

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  have no chance @ this according to r/applyingtocollege and/or college ... ’t make the college app cut:  someone unsure and insecure. i had no idea ... dream college. institution soulmates or whatever xx and i had a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  of failure or disappointment here at college. It was a pretty rocky ... , which is comfortable. In college, especially far from home, that isn ... particularly excited about it either--the hotel is not made for college students

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  I did for the past three years in college because living costs don ... terrible imposter syndrome coming into college and probably still do to some ... indulging myself because I can. Since my first two years at college, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  make a college staple: pasta. We were cooking for six people, but we ... another college. We met last June at a summer camp, and they were visiting ... together. In the fall, college felt very rush rush rush to me. I had a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  college students + staying up way too late = everything from cookies to ... ’s talk about the real cooking equation: kitchens + hungry college students ... going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  majorly Part Of The Problem. Going to college 5,000 miles away from home ... ones, but I figured that I’d need them in a small college dorm. They also ... college as well—only now with a more roomy and aesthetic vehicle

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  , I had to meet new people, I had to go on exciting College Adventures ... that there is a correct way to do college (and life in general): a neat ... ’s college experience is different, but I don’t think I really internalized

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... went to an art college. She'd probably be just as tired and her posture ... at a college art program. Because charcoal is a blunt stick, as opposed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  college, I had crabmeats, an acronym of all of our friends' names put ... might tell my kids about, the "college friends" that will inevitably pop up in all of my stories of my college shenanigans. And as a result, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... want after college. i wanted to cry after they said that, because it was ... what to do after college, i have realized that i don’t understand myself

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  semester, that MIT had parties like any other college, and that MIT wasn ... 'll do in industry, and about my life after college, I tell myself: I'm a ... where to apply, or where to go to college. I'm lying, but by these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  told me this was the best semester of college they’ve had so far, and the ... trying over and over for most of high school and my first year of college ... people and social interactions in college i still only looked for new stem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  becoming something permanent and fixed. As I entered college, where the ... are we going to live?" or "What should we do after college?" I can ... myself, that I began to feel trapped. As we went off to college, things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  years. Something about college that I didn’t expect is that college is ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  see from the two measly tags (Colleges and Scholarships). Pros Easy ... after college apps were over since I wanted to track things like working ... college, no one gives a fuck. Managing your tasks digitally saves so much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  centered my self-worth around academics and college admittance. So, imagine my shock when I began college and discovered many new, unfamiliar ... , relationships, personalities, values, etc. that I was not aware of before college

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... student halfway through college, I still haven’t figured out most things ... for? As any college student can tell you, that’s a really scary

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in ... you, college students don’t have to get up until around 9 or 10 and get ... are wrong. One of the things about college is if you do not limit

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student ... . While looking at colleges, I was pretty conflicted about whether I wanted ... staying home and going away for college, the dilemma between feeling

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015