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  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of counselors from top tier schools gave a panel discussion about the college ...  standing) at the college forum, wearing our high school shirts and MIT caps for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  To the rising seniors beginning to think about their college essays - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays ... college essays, and maybe you’re right, but I really like writing! College

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... us to know what is GMO and what is not. He added that many college ... college would be pretty boring if people weren't really pushed academically

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  do a single sport until college, where I started fencing in freshman year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most ... college, but it's honestly hard to see that progress sometimes, as I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is ... time to be concerned about building your college admissions resume, or ... affect your college application. Your specific activities were never what

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  writing about a myriad of other things. I posted to College Confidential ... things until I got to college. Although you may not yet know what you ... 't regret it. If you're applying to college this year, my best advice is to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  college. ;) My amazing friends Yida and Sarah agreed to help me move my ... college students flooding into Boston right now), so I reserved a 10-foot ... college. Put the stuff that you do have in smaller boxes. From someone who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don ... . It’s why we have no honors college or even honors classes, no grade de ... competitive with other colleges, but never within itself. Difficulties and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  ? Do they even want to go to college, anymore?   Because these ... i thought were really important about college (technical rigor ... ?” And college is the next step to answering that question and pursuing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  I do in this area for a summer job?” Experimenting in College Stuff I've experimented with in college: Mathematics, Theoretical (Course 18-3): brief ... . Conclusion: college has been fun, but I still have no idea what I will do in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have ... ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... the book that I have re-read every summer of college, from 2014 til now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  about college essays. It's interesting how life changes. A year ago, college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  After attending many entrepreneurship networking events as a college ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don ... Bridge application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received ... of the National College Match. If you are not matched with any school

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  atmosphere. Her first job out of college was programming for Jim Elliot at MIT ... . She studied astrophysics at Wellesley College and then went on to ... physics and math major from Sienna College. She appears in the New Horizons

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  in college? Nope. College, high school, grad school, all the chapters ... remind you that, like wearing Spandex, college is a priviledge and not a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  two of his friends from Montana, who just moved to Boston for college ... begun my senior year. My last year of college. MY LAST YEAR OF COLLEGE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  college stuff, and cried about leaving home. My parents dropped me and my ... impressive than getting into college. I’ve realized over the past two years ... decisions page: We know that applying to college is stressful, and that the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  home than MIT and I was the first child in my family going off to college ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... an amazing college experience!

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... world. I remember thinking about how old college students seemed all ... junior year of college. The workload has increased substantially, but I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010