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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  back home but I didn't bring it to college, so this little guy will make ... Newsweek "How to Get Into College" magazine is now on shelves, and features ... at your dream college prove there's a place for every student." One of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  're making your college decision. A bunch of them are mine, which has less to ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...s_midway.shtml College Choice Why I came to MIT (Mollie): http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...e_to_mit.shtml Making your college decision (Melis): Why Melis chose MIT http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his ... college, and yes, you should celebrate your awesomeness for the rest of your ... college, and you're going to get to (not HAVE to!) kick up a storm again and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is ... -a-week plan like many of my friends at other colleges, which allowed me to 1 ... 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  spent a while fussing over getting into college, and as a result I'd put a ... leaving your high school friends and making new college ones. Maybe you'll make pre-college fellow admit friends who you'll all use as a support

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  across a front page article titled, "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set ... . Why must we choose? When applying to colleges, everyone strives to be ... . Consequently, students enter college with a ton of experience in different fields

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  specific major or a specific school/college within MIT. Students who are ... have enough gender diversity, and not be a good place to be a college ... indeed be a fun place to attend college. As for the interview, I'll have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  's important to remember that while this college application process is going on ... same few colleges: McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Remember, not all of the best colleges are in the United States. Why not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was ... community this summer and I'm incredibly grateful to the (still anonymous

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  communities that appears among many students--not just Africans, of course, but ... particular community. Take one of the most active Africans I know, for example ... better way to live my life than to give back to my community,” he says, “it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  definitely continue with quiz bowl when I got to college, but I realized that ... really disadvantaged me for college quiz bowl, which is a million times ... want to continue fencing after college, and if coronavirus doesn't cancel

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  you’re already in college or still in high school. Even for just a ... . College application deadlines are fast approaching. MIT Early Action ... really. The stresses of early adulthood—college applications, graduating

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you ... college. (And senior year, we were always talking about college.) When I ... the college I got into. It is none of your business." And then sometimes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  making the final cut. This is not how my college applications went. I was ... to remember who I used to be (SERIOUSLY. TIME. STOP IT.), college is ... parts of that college personality with the Sage And Wise Lessons Of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... phases of my college career: 1. September 2003 (Freshman Year): I had a ... about college life that I had not yet begun to consider. As time went on

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  encourage you to take advanced (AP/IB/college) math & sciences wherever ... report? No. The scores will come to us in bulk from the College Board, and ... automatically take the best scores from the official College Board (or ACT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  . When I got the email saying that I had been offered the position, I was ... the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  . I had a full-time return offer expiring within the next week, and ... time to think through my final offer decision. At 11:57pm PST, I [annotation note="More on this in a follow-up post!"]signed my return offer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  , to college applications, to my MIT acceptance, and to now. I see names ... mention for the college experience. When I walked into MIT, 5 out of the 8 ... . Coming to college, I realized I no longer needed to be grounded, that I had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  available on the internet, whereas in college, sometimes what we’re studying ... school. In fact, (a brief tangent) I’ve always disliked it when college ... (which was the most college-like high school class I ever took, take it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015