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  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

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps ... . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out. She offered me items like floaters—which the class normally did not use

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  . Pronounced "gee-are-tee." Housemaster - Members of the MIT community who are ... dorm, in addition to being residents of the dorm's community. A dorm ... - Next House NW35 - the New Ashdown community Random Hall SH - Senior House

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... , friendship things Friends and Community || VEDA # 22 – Steam Cafe, watching TV

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  forward to college decisions season. To my surprise, touring the assorted ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... 's when I remembered one of the 50 Things: 3. In college more than ever

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... , check out the annual questions thread on College Confidential

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Nations International School, then uptown to Hunter College High School, the ... about colleges and universities. Many of the students I met already knew a ... high schools than most other colleges. One of the questions asked quite

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• 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

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  ~20,000! possible communities we might bring together. I love poring

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  Triduum service hosted by the Tech Catholic Community. On Holy Thursday I am

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while building something awesome.…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015