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  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  "Economics" in my degree to tell you that. I consider myself ridiculously

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  masters degree. I’ve learned how to keep learning--how to adopt new skills

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  , completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Microsoft. MIT is behind you. After the stairs make a 180-degree turn and look

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  I’m back to Nigeria, there’s a lesser but marked degree of reverse

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  fifth-degree polynomial, because it's well-known that work varies as the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  them into college, but instead based on values and interests that are ... might impact their college applications. We do not expect or prefer any ... aspiring students," because we believe that college admissions operates in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  . Yeah. We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a college application or a job ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next ... you’ll find another college that steals your heart. If you got denied

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  's exactly what you hope to do when choosing where to attend college. The same ... are the same ones you should seek out when deciding which college communities to join. Remember, you are not attending a college simply to study

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  until she came to college. It was actually Kenneth who told her about them ... school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... students from MIT, Harvard University, and Wellesley College.[/caption] One

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  was called "Home Sweet College", where I had talked about being a scared ... college in Colorado, I still would have felt that displacement of "home ... after college, and supporting the big, publicly advertised galas or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  that a college thousands of miles away would send me mail of this ... CollegeConfidential links to angst-filled posts covering the spectrum of ... find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  season, I (mistakenly, in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the myriad of colleges that I applied to, I received eight interview notices ... gleaned some tips about college interviews, and I'm going to share some of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , last minute SAT IIs and college applications. If there's any part of the ... college, though, there aren't any seating charts. And at first, it can be ... /science as gigantic suburban schools? I understand that going to college is not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  , and have success in college and beyond. 1. Senior Year of High School: It's About the Match College is about much more than books and classes ... campus. I didn’t understand this when I started to look at colleges and to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself facing more questions about identity in general in college. This year, I ... do are all important.   Finding Meaning As I said, in college, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  forward to college decisions season. To my surprise, touring the assorted ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... 's when I remembered one of the 50 Things: 3. In college more than ever

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... , check out the annual questions thread on College Confidential

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012