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  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  sites like Quora, College Confidential, and /r/ApplyingToCollege.   ... the college application process, nevermind your classes, or work, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  campus and college. The following is an unordered list of some of our top ... want you to know by Allan K. '17 The 'How to College' Masterpost by ... Self Help by Natasha B. '16 November 2015 What My College Essays Were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  college life. Would my sister Skype with me often? How could I stick all my ... about packing and sibling communication and college independence. I ... away from campus, 714,927.761 smoots away. One that outlasts the college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  who’s just about to start the college application process, which might ... —the college application process in general—for a very, very long time. (A lot of ... of a college experience, and I was also intensely familiar with how to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  applications, MIT wasn’t my first choice school. I had visited colleges the ... started College Applications Round 2. Reflecting back on my college tours, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  schools and their particular needs. Right now, a small liberal arts college ... college applications and it’s my personal hope that MIT won’t be far behind ... states that Elmhurst College is committed to diversity and that if people

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  recommendation for college; b) which colleges you're applying to and why. I ... possible jump on the nerve-racking process of applying to college, as if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for ... colleges in the Northeast over three days. At the time, I was fairly undecided in which colleges I wanted to apply to. All I wanted to do was get

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be ... : being in college will be a wonderful experience, no matter what university ... run, college will only be as rewarding as you are prepared to let it be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  them for the last couple of months, by the way. College application time ... COLLEGE" articles, as they will only lead to panic, and we just discussed ... than the "none of the fifteen colleges I applied to will take me because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... : Applying to college is a terrifying process. The applications are all filled ... 's questions, or being painfully honest about the terror of flying to college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  college essays, and apply for a million scholarships all at once. Dealing ... . Because here's the thing you shouldn't forget - you will get into college ... you will be in college, where you'll have the opportunity to really make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is ... her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... act as an Admissions Officer for a fictional College or University

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun ... Wellesley College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts College of Art ("Mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  to participate in college. But I still wanted to be active, and my dorm ... 'd love to know about it. Not the same few colleges: Bryn Mawr College

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be ... , which means I've been out of college for eight years. Every fall I ... going back, and it feels great. In college I double majored in Literature

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  it was I wanted out of college, taught me to be able to see myself ... car keys brightly decorated with a keychain from the college I chose to ... up going to my last choice college (that one of my friends even trashed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something ... towards (college) and a pretty limited set of possible experiences. By the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  ridiculously low acceptance rates of colleges like MIT. I would then from there ... which I was deferred, was because I was vigorously stalking the College ... admit looking at other people’s scores, predicting which colleges I would

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011