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  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  comes at a difficult college-choosing time. I hope that a look at MIT ... , a list of women graduates, a dedication to MIT "college girls", and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... Julia) Because College of Charleston is not currently on spring break, we

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  -generation college student, I have always wondered how people from similar backgrounds ... discussed in the forum. Sure, no college admissions process is perfect

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  focus on anything other than MIT (other college apps, your classes, your ... college) admissions...If I could do things over, I wouldn't think about MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voters that exist here, with more than 50 colleges and universities ... , and that change has to start somewhere. Having spent my time in college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  consider applying to American colleges in general and MIT specifically, if ... international student interested in applying to American colleges generally I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  End at midnight. Don’t Pack: -- fancy adornments from garish college ... pillows. Not on your first week of college. -- chairs, bean bags, and other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  form and then focus on anything other than MIT (other college apps, your ... other college) admissions...If I could do things over, I wouldn't think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  astoundingly over the college months. In August, the Frosh could have sworn that ... . Life in college is not how she imagined it. The Frosh had many dreams for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  ): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... . I also went to my first college party this October! Though technically

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  others, comes back time and time again after college apps. Over the last ... or she is writing about. In the context of college admissions and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  was your age I applied to ten colleges. Eight of them were elite liberal arts colleges. Two of them were safety state schools. I would have gone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  college. I arrived on campus for FUP (the Freshman Urban Program aka the ... college is a time for reinventing yourself, so why not start by trying

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  eating college student are only slightly true, microwave meals became a ... always feasible in the hustle and bustle of college life and as it turns

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  . My dad's job at the community college meant that I'd be able to attend ... I started looking into my options, maybe community college wasn't my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  . This is on purpose! College - MIT in particular - will overwhelm you ... directions; that’s what will happen when you get to college. Very few of us end

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... an email. Exhibit B: Everyone (or at least college freshman wanting to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  going to college, you're almost certainly going there. We change our ... advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Spring is the season when students across the country are making choices: high school seniors are choosing where they are going to college ... might want to apply to college, and high school freshmen and sophomores

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee ... innocent enough, college age students with a boom box. We added ourselves to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012