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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am ... so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... changed and split apart. College applications are tiny in comparison to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... college admissions and life at my internet home, which, contrary to popular

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... apparently suicidal man reading my college applications? There's a smart way ... , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  first apartment I moved into after college to move down the red line. As ... would do all three and still graduate with two degrees. (Yes, I failed a ... college admissions community, and I have to say, it's something that I can

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of 85 degrees. 12 wheels grip plywood from three directions, binding car ... for print, my first time (at least since college apps) working under a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... lots more in the future! :) 18. Visit four other Boston-area colleges ... ! 101. EARN YOUR MIT DEGREE(S)! Biology AND History! :D Been there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  fake, and I hate that. Maybe if I keep expelling the gloom, there will be

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  the unusually warm weather we've been having, it was actually fake snow

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , which you may remember from Robo-CJ writes a college app or Robo-CJ writes ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... . —Diani Jones Oh, capitalism getting a degree from a giant corporation. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  computer science degree for that prestige level. I hate how I still bend to ... integrate into my Bachelor's degree. This is where management, graphic design ... necessarily go out of my way to pursue in my degree. This would be biomedical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... minutes of fruitless discussion, I left the College Office, unsuccessful. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... . This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college ... with a $200 discount for being a college student, as well as a rebate on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B. A. from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey Extracurricular: Civil ... “informed that he cannot hope for the Degree next year” (he finally graduated

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  lot of pressures--MIT things, non-MIT things, college things, home ... was talking to one of my best friends, Javier W. ‘17 of Trinity College ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... didn't go away like headaches should.   You hear it a lot. College ... professor gave me the full allotted time. "I was in college once, too," he

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  "prove" something, I let that nearly ruin my college experience with too ... probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  believe that it's difficult to fake. Maybe. I hope so, anyway, because MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011