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• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college ... have a river view. I also can’t imagine a better a college town than ... , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on College Confidential: You know, I get sick of college admissions officers ... years ago when I was applying to college, perhaps I would have felt the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  a good college and proved all the haters wrong! but mine was more like ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... the things that are wrong with your work. Then college admissions season

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that ... of your document.) NEVER CUT AND PASTE BETWEEN COLLEGE ESSAYS. If we ... Financial Aid. If you don't apply, you can't afford it. Don't take college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chop up your vegetables in evenly sized

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  degree requirements"] unlimited units policy.[/annotation] This post will

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same ... friends take very different paths through college. When I met my Sam at CPW

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  seventh grade. I didn’t imagine life past college admissions. All I knew was ... College Confidential results threads from the past n years into an Excel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  side’ of academia. I am assured that not all Liberal Arts Colleges use ... point, you realized that your college experience is very different from

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  here? When people from my high school asked where I was going to college ... you learn during your time in college, it's that plans change. Who knows

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  into a selective college, but what you wanted to do more than anything ... possible for competitive college admissions. Sometimes, you really can have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  people. They are my colleagues, classmates, college roommates and lab ... each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  Community College. Both of us were, of course, terribly disappointed that she ... ." very meekly. And in college it's especially awkward when you write an e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , college. People asked me, I wondered, why am I working so hard if there’s no ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn ... ’t want to go to college to make money, that’s not my intent at MIT. That

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  attend Ivies and top state universities and small liberal arts colleges and ... college as part of a larger project of intellectual discovery and ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019