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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  implications. I chose the subject of college admissions and how the computer is changing the experience for both applicant and college. :-) We'll see how

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . ------------------------ Karen wrote: "My college counselor... made my essay look like it came straight out of 'What Colleges Want to Hear.' (If that existed, she would

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  ! Going on a college visit without sitting in on some classes is like going ... here on my college visit, I had already been accepted. I came by myself

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... high school courses and colleges. McGee said he's happy to offer them any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  a person working in the MIT admissions office at a recent college fair ... would be elligible to apply in her mail. Should I still apply to colleges ... . Although i do feel that I'm ready to take on college as I would graduate in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  college application essays over cups and cups of coffee. After some brutal ... be memorable in your college essays; you should try to be knowable. In ... about their applications. (After all, their college application is one of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  thousands of miles away, who doesnt know anyone who went to a big college ... college student woe, it was an issue of wanting to do work but not being ... choosing where to go to college. only months after studying in mit did i find

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  entering college, graduating college and entering “the real world,” this ... Greendale Community College (I’m just going to assume there’s a real one out there somewhere). For those of you graduating college, true, many

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  college dorm room can be summed up by this picture. This might be because my formative experiences with college living spaces were from residential summer ... looked something like that picture. I think I entered college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• 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