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• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  colleges (comparatively to the amount we did into MIT) until we applied to ... finished applying to colleges, we tried being as calm as possible about all ... -messy-maze that is applying to college), it was that we didn’t give into our initial

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  write this post before AP exams hit, but I just checked the College ... potential colleges need and take them as soon as possible. Start thinking ... your butts off, and even if it’s not quite the same challenge as college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  replacement for the college level classes MIT expects out of a potential student ... for you. You want to go to college and be happy, even if that doesn ... college or over the summer; the MIT website (as you probably know) suggests

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  with grants. All colleges are businesses, but some are more businesses ... , the average for-profit college receives 75% of its revenue from federal ... -profit colleges for educational fraud. Consider that though for-profit colleges only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  a ten year old. "Michael, where do you want to go to college?" Say wha--!? "Um," I replied, "Well, I don't know anything about college ... Newsweek college guide books, and I read all sorts of websites that had neat

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . Here goes: Zaira ponders: What type of laptop should I get for college ... I came to college, after being a dedicated PC user for probably about ... during your senior year to prepare for college? I am trying to get ready

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  develop that will best help me in college? I think the thing that helps the ... also helps if you can read quickly -- there's a lot of reading in college ... a college campus anywhere near your house, it would be great to try

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  good college social experience? Is MIT so difficult that I will be ... expected. I have a lot of options for college (harvard, brown, stanford ... a college." Also, in my most recent entry's comments, "Anonymous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  proficiency has been scored is the PEAU, which is offered by the college board for students who are interested in applying to colleges in Puerto Rico ... across the country. I have one child applying to colleges now, and three

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  have no chance @ this according to r/applyingtocollege and/or college ... ’t make the college app cut:  someone unsure and insecure. i had no idea ... dream college. institution soulmates or whatever xx and i had a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  of failure or disappointment here at college. It was a pretty rocky ... , which is comfortable. In college, especially far from home, that isn ... particularly excited about it either--the hotel is not made for college students

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  see from the two measly tags (Colleges and Scholarships). Pros Easy ... after college apps were over since I wanted to track things like working ... college, no one gives a fuck. Managing your tasks digitally saves so much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  centered my self-worth around academics and college admittance. So, imagine my shock when I began college and discovered many new, unfamiliar ... , relationships, personalities, values, etc. that I was not aware of before college

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... student halfway through college, I still haven’t figured out most things ... for? As any college student can tell you, that’s a really scary

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in ... you, college students don’t have to get up until around 9 or 10 and get ... are wrong. One of the things about college is if you do not limit

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student ... . While looking at colleges, I was pretty conflicted about whether I wanted ... staying home and going away for college, the dilemma between feeling

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  director of studies at your college who you can talk to about these kinds of ... be formals, which are these three course dinners that each college hosts during the week. My friends and I went to Jesus College formal a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  . "Why did you pick MIT over the bajillion other colleges out there ... intellectual stimulation. I didn't want college to be just a continuation of high ... colleges, but culture is really a tangible thing that you can compare. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  school here. And picking up a Boston Symphony Orchestra college card (which ... should actually get a college card instead of settling for video streams that look like a murky smoothie of pixels: With a college card, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  use college as an opportunity to expand my horizons and meet other kinds ... probably take literature classes in college without taking literature classes in high school, but good luck trying to take math classes in college

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011