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  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  continued to mentor the team throughout college. Now, I am, to the best of my ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience ... season. Let me give you some advice, bad news first. Bad: your college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  college. Wonderful, I picked the major with the worst possible times for ... , you theoretically always have money on you. My college loans feed ... college, MIT, admissions, or anything else. Can I be fired for this? Meh.

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  intensely disliked in high school, would follow me to college. However ... once again captured me in college, so I decided to attend this conference ... (there's more than 60 colleges present!), and just have a good time in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  probably won't in college. You'll probably get lazy and gain some weight. Or ... , there's a lot college has to teach you - calculus lessons, life lessons ... to college, and maybe all the time you've saved from tying your shoes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  Georgia Military College, in Milledgeville, Georgia. Etta is a straight ... 'll close with this. The concept of an LΔ is really important for all college ... for college applications for a moment. Every attribute that contributes

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  professor put up a transparency with a "script" for a college-age heterosexual ... researchers who surveyed college students and were trying to figure out what ... , because before college, I had no idea what was going on around me in terms

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Hollywood fantasy. NEWSFLASH... NO ONE MAKES IT AT MIT/COLLEGE (OR IN LIFE ... student who will take an advanced course at the local community college ... of "B" in the college course instead of the "A" that many of her peers

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Cheney," "The Al Franken") and Boston area colleges ("The Crimson," "The ... like the traditional standard college essay I'd always heard about ... blank spaces on this thing? And why wasn't there some magical College

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Nations International School, then uptown to Hunter College High School, the ... about colleges and universities. Many of the students I met already knew a ... high schools than most other colleges. One of the questions asked quite

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... invigorating energy of new college students captivate even the most hardened ... new land of college, just as you think nobody understands you and you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as ... part of my transition to college. Second, [2] my colleague Mikey '05 ... college education isn't just about the classes - it's about educating the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is ... things in red cups just like the rest of the nation's college students. The ... . "Oh my gosh! I'm in college now! I can do whatever I want! Heehee, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  college interviews. Nearly three years ago now...believe it or not, guys ... senior (in your final pre-college year), you probably want to take the SAT ... TOEFL as well. When you start applying to colleges, you'll get the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college ... , in fact, "more traditional in terms of college atmosphere". I doubt you ... typical college party. *grin* There are other cultural differences. West

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as ... that I was truly headed to college. Panic. Decide that the best way ... after leaving for college? Even an overly generous estimate of seeing my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  everyone. around this time last year, when college decisions were all coming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  about the competition, or college apps, or whatever. I asked how they were ... are typically people who know they’ll help HMMT when they get to college ... we were up to now, and about college. He asks me if I still keep up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  College App Due Dates Are Creeping Up Season Fall!

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  or students at other colleges). If this sounds like something you might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019