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  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 / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... fiction). 3. How has your college decision impacted the rest of your life ... . Before college, I would make long-term plans and carry them out with my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  and State College have both become home, though in very different ways, State College over eight years and Boston over the past three. Here are a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  , college applications have rolled around—this gorgeous month usually comes ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... in college. (Yes, you will have to write at MIT even if you are a math

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and ... like a college student, based on the college-centric questions that they mostly asked us. How has college been? Was it hard with COVID around? What

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  between being a full time college student and spending my time with my ... college and now, 14 years from graduation, I prioritize sleep even more ... from high school? From college? If so, how do you keep up with these

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• 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 R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  cover theme or a fake-out theme, but many Hunts since have had one, like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• 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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... , it has to be extremely hot: between one and two thousand degrees

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• 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

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  “oh it’s good at science” and “college is a really long way away”. I was ... had I finished college anywhere else, I might have changed in the same ... ’t think a lot about MIT — or college at all — during most of high school

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• 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