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  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  about two weeks before the college guidance counselor came up T: Hey I ... was at my house and wanted to eat cookies to celebrate our college ... school I'd applied to (except our state college), I was foolishly confident

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  , academics still trump clubs, since in theory you’re in college primarily to ... perspectives of undergrads and grads as well as non MIT college experiences ... if you’re not given direction. You’re in college to learn things, but

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within them. We had a Hackathon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  what you want out of college. Not because of where you are, but because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  'm serious. Get a tan. Read a book. Stop thinking about college applications so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• 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

  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

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  colleges. MIT has some of its undergraduates give tours around campus while ... requests, people in the community needed a college student for literally

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• 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 / 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 / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  during the pandemic and me going off to college that my parents has

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• 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