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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a dance that happens between students and colleges where the power dynamic ... process, picking and choosing which colleges they want to apply to. For

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... applying to college. A funny moment while filling out applications. What it feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to summarize and capture the important things in your college application, and ... breath, close your eyes, and count to ten. Applying to college is really

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Sidebar: Visiting MIT this summer

  

  ; other Boston area colleges frequently visited by our guests. All times ... : Kenmore Square10am and 2pm, Monday-Friday Boston CollegeGreen Line, B Train: Boston College9:30am, 10:30am, 1:00pm, 2:00pm, Monday-Friday Northeastern

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  author. That’s not a job. Not a career. And these reasons feel fake to me ... life” felt more “fake” than everything else, and because of that, I didn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  college essay process! Huzzah! Three Saturdays ago, I was walking through ... procrastinating and skip ahead to the college-relevant material, you slacker.) (Did ... .g. prefrosh material -- we were talking about the college essay process. For

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  daily journal to varying degrees of success. I tried to keep a diary when ... exemplifies the thriller genre to the highest degree. And it is incredible ... I got to college, and I feel very behind compared to a lot of my peers

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  college was I going to land at in the US? I had a girlfriend then. We would ... -orange sunrises remain some of my fondest memory snapshots from college. My dorm (i ... about 15 degrees, when running became too extreme as I stopped feeling my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought ... local college"]high school.[/annotation] Two, I simply do not want to take ... ..."]undergrad degree.[/annotation] 18.06: Linear Algebra 18.06 left me with mixed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  AMC and NSLI-Y were the be-all and end-all to my college acceptance, and ... into a good college, but I was so wholly impacted by them that it ... Specificity — generally, the higher degree of quantitative precision with which

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a ... polynomial function of a real variable, and the degree of  is , then  is the ... make it out of college—a very big “if”—they tend to be played out within

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  is the best opportunity I have to go abroad. College is one of the most ... taken a college language class. I ended up interviewing with the teacher ... beautiful 270 degree view of the entire of city of Barcelona, the ocean in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  I often hear students say that colleges control their destinies and that the admissions process is all about whom the colleges admit and not ... disagree. There are three major decisions in the college admissions process

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  Have you ever wondered how different college mascots are ... YouTubers and writers Jon Bois, where he ranked every NCAA FBS college ... and make something similar with Boston-area college mascots. I was going

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I ... truly believe that college admissions should be as uncomplicated, honest ... experiences applying to college will enable you to see your own experiences this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  off to college.  I won't try to cover everything you should bring (if

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  college. I think all of the colleges has a matriculation ceremony on the ... sign a book or piece of paper. Each college also hosts their own ... college. All the CME students participated in this process. My college

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  their college admissions-themed issue. Similarly, Newsweek featured a chat with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their college admissions-themed issue -- it is also worth a read. Here's the TIME

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  : not the 1000-1500 degrees C of red-hot metal, but ~2400 degrees of white ... a second degree burn. It was two weeks from my last final, which ... uncooked steak and realized I in fact had a third degree burn. That is one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  that elite colleges do not have higher rates of suicide than others ... years ago; most suicides at colleges are not heavily publicized. (See also ... ; thousands of other suicides at colleges went mostly unmentioned.) These deaths

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010