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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I ... college counselors spend hours crafting a recommendation letter for each ... students and first generation college students. I'm proud of that, and those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  "look good" on their resume or college application. We look for students
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  college, not knowing what to do after graduation, realizing that your ... personal college experience, but every attempt ends up going on and on about ... the story-book college experience that I hoped for. But this is one of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... ; high school –> college"]pretty much linear direction of my life

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in ... . Or the 999th. When I started college, I used to think these steps would be huge: Go to college. Go to graduate school. ??? Be a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... of colleges, had I decided to attend those instead. Here's a secret ... else. Truthfully, I started college when I was young and impressionable

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  of my college experience up until this point has been a joint venture ... whatever, this is more just talking about the college dating experience."]dating in college or finding people to talk to?[/annotation] What is it like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  college applications. Despite the temporal distance, the prose and the ... -to-last year of college, and hopefully, by then, I'll have a little better idea ... year out of college. I have no idea what my life will look like then

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  think about how that intrinsic aspect of my college experience won't be ... college experience so strongly? why does it feel like I've lived in Burton ... and trying to optimize the rest of my college experience since I feel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don ... -guessing their decision to go far away from home for college.   tolerate it ... College Confidential user who concocts all sorts of conspiracy theories

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... college apps will fade? but if you don't find college apps difficult ... housing assignments, marriage, college applications, military drafts, and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  imagining a sample day at my future college. At that point in time, I had no ... of that sort, but I could imagine how the start of my college life ... college. It’s even helped serve as a nice means of[annotation note="darn it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  bloggers past about the very specific feeling that is awaiting your college ... ’ll do awesome things. i wish i’d known earlier that good colleges aren ... college experience if you want to and if you work for it. Out of fear of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  college apps at this time last year...lo and behold: "college essay dump ... college essays, i was applying for random scholarships in a desperate effort

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in ... that it is one of the few sports that you can pick up in college and be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope ... it has without a doubt been one of the most rewarding parts of college ... Americans and more specifically American college students. That a general

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  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 ... the results of the National College Match. If you are not matched with

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is ... my feelings toward college. As many resources as MIT has, as many world ... scary, full of uncertainties. Entering college sure felt like that. But if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

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

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! You can ... my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received your application ... Bridge will announce the results of the National College Match. If you are not

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012