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  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  're interviewing new GRT's (like RA's at other colleges, but they're graduate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... dream. Every day made me feel like I was at a college-student summer camp ... to live alongside students from Wellesley College, Northeastern

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  college diet of frozen foods that added extra pounds of jiggle to my hips ... friend at the time, a college grad who’d been through it all before, butted

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  and in short, they were my first family at college. We had an incredible ... was applying to college, the single most important thing was for me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... crushed by my first semester of college. I need to ask you, has anyone ever

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I ... , and therefore cannot go onto college. The exam covers math through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  trained for life after college, so he created a place that would prepare ... to college without trying to get a perfect GPA first semester. You

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  I normally won't is explore the bowels of College Confidential (if I had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  college, adapt to anything. In fact, I was a bit horrified of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  : College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh This post was tough to edit! Both

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  meetings every week that were higher quality than I (as a broke college

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  Shooting for Top Gun: Aiming to Arm Students with Life Skills for College and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  when it came time to apply to college, MIT was naturally on the list, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  following sports once I got to college. Or maybe I just enjoy getting a peek

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  between having an average college experience and an amazing one, and that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  way related to differences in math ability, given that college ... only got X score,” and “I’m never going to college, I’m so stupid.” It ... of Stereotype Threat on the Standardized Test Performance of College

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  . Students entering college this fall would have been just eight years old ... only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which ... -approved. Oh, and unless you are Mollie, College Confidential will take years off

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014