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  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Hometown: Verona, NJ High school: Verona High School College: Tufts University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  going to college, they not only bring you what you expected (sometimes ... 't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last days with ... to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home ... ," because after high school, don’t all good students go to college? And

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  to come to a central meeting. And then I call their college counselors ... understand what a selective college admissions process looks like 'from the ... spoke to about 30 students. 10:00AM - Middle College High (San

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  about throughout college and high school, but things which that have ... figured out before college (or in college) — let me be evidence that you ... colleges, or what life will be like after high school and college. Maybe this

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... that taking the ACT or SAT with writing is unnecessary, as most colleges ... college student, while somehow not changing at all.  I already had poor

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  ups and downs, ranging from failing my first college midterm to becoming an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College ... night and woke up at 7:00. It was really nice. Then I came to college and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  app that manages the schedules of college students (because everyone on my team is a college student). We can design apps that connect acapella college groups (because no one on my team is in an acapella group). To help

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To ... colleges would start their own blogs based on the MITAdmissions model. They ... , and so a college admissions site with a) student-written blogs and b

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

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  decisions from colleges, but I don't think a few months is too much to ask for ... 'll hear back from US colleges over the next couple of months. kate writes ... goals. I know the starting point...getting into college, and I know what I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became ... tons of paths to success. People often go to community college or a junior college their first two years, for example, and do very well. In

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... confession in her blog on the college Web site. "There've been several times ... reported, "IT IS SO TRUE. Love. It. So. Much." Dozens of colleges

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy. — Sun Tzu FAKE IT TILL YA ... how well you've mastered the material. Fake it till you make it. As ... Final Exam Study Schedule - College Info Geek" by Thomas Frank "Study

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  . But, I realized that before coming to college, I took my home ... college I realized that the dishwasher is on a long list of things that make ... for the college students, you are not alone. 1) Parents- Yes, they nag

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  college admissions-themed scholarship competition. The first of six episodes ... give the winner a college education from a top-rated school of their ... ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  undergrad a little longer and complete the computer science degree I decided to get (along with my math degree). I was and am grateful that so many editors decided to take a chance on me, some college student who honestly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... , and single-digit-with-windchill-in-the-negative-twenties to 46-degrees-and-kinda-sunny weather shifts (throwback to my first Boston winter when I though 26 degrees

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at Aerospace ... you can graduate with an Aero/Astro degree from MIT :) (a typical ... that my full attentions will turn to a course 8 degree. Hey hey don't get

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... the part where it’s currently 77 degrees in South Florida, while here it’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  graduated from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984. Clara is a Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... the same thing. When I got there, I was just some college kid who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005