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  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  from Hartford to Hong Kong, Seattle to Singapore. Most meetings will be ... for college or head east to Cambridge. Fortunately, over the years I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  the EC community: its ability to turn any ridiculous idea into a bright ... prefrosh who were being led to believe that Boston was always 70 degrees and ... upperclassmen friends who freely offered up solid advice and told us about their

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This ... ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... side, I was often choosing between schools/programs that offer “Mech

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  become more important to you very fast, maybe to different degrees but it ... healthier!) to cook for yourself. Nearly all dorms have at least a community ... up for the first credit card you get an offer for, slow down. You

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  August 2007 will MIT make a conditional offer i.e. I will need to get three ... , although I don't know enough to comment about other US colleges and ... been taught, even despite taking all of my school's offered physics and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  message out to the MIT community: From: Susan Hockfield Subject: Tragedy at ... [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While ... ; versatile and diverse, they offer a quick yet intimate glimpse into a community’s tastes. If I’ve learned anything, tastes reveal much about

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... formulaic approach to life for the purpose of college admissions. I may have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  college is a community, so it is unlikely they will simply admit you just so ... only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But ... believed that getting into a dream college was a binary decision. I believed

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  the USACO community, which also offers a bulletin/discussion board and ... online math community and learning site on the web, bringing together ... father and, by proxy, his daughter, family and community, all my best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very ... a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... institutions, while also answering questions you may have about the college ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  mine. A week before graduation, I got a job offer at a college access ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me ... college applications were selected or who did the selecting, so naturally

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  project—and college—thinking there were just a few big problems in the world ... divide, what had once been a hairline crack before college but which now ... applications, and I was no exception. At the end of June, I flew to Seattle

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  January I wrote a post, “Colors”, detailing the MIT community’s response to ... Black community’s flagship gala. Last year, Grace A. ‘16, led MIT’s Black ... events highlighted across college campuses such as the University of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... discovered CollegeConfidential.com and began showing me people’s ridiculous ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many ... (join our army), the course administrators offered the option to complete

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  .  Unfortunately, that seems unlikely to be the case. Last month, the College Board ... colleges show flexibility with their normal admissions requirements; last ... believe that students should be community members first and applicants

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  William Penn (New Castle. Delaware) College, year, major: Norfolk State ... college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of ... essay telling us what you want to do after college (E.g. I want to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course ... are ones that offer a lot of fulfillment. Things are a bit hypocritical ... of the community. That warmed my heart to hear :) I tend to fixate on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020