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  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  from community colleges, and others find their way to MIT from private ... Making) Subin Previous institution: Northern Virginia Community College ... transfer to MIT, I was a community college student pursuing chemical

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college ... to complete the cycle. It’s the college circle of life. You will also ... college—every connection you make, no matter how brief, will leave a mark

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  spent my summer in Seattle watching jet planes take off from Boeing Field ... school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at ... 's widely perpetuated, particularly by science media and even college

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... mini-rant. Have you ever considered how community service became the de

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  program mentors.    Check out more pre-college programs offered by ... , college admissions, and campus life. Industrial site visits are also offered ... ,000 Scholarship for minority students that also offers college mentorship

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few programs no longer offered (like Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering ... undergraduate majors MIT offers has nearly doubled since, the essence of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... launching a Facebook app called AdmissionSplash that shows prospective college ... admission data they release.   Applying to college, especially

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , there are no credit restrictions. MIT will no longer offer Early ... newly-made College of Computing, and much, much more. As student representatives, we asked questions and offered our own experiences to shape all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  . The only comments I can offer are, again, that the Mathematics degree ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and courses: organization of departments and schools, course numbers, and degree

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  for two degrees, took five classes for five semesters, four for two, and ... engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  colleges. This network is brand new this academic year. “Where do you want to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... aggressive, the answer felt obvious. But I applied to colleges using the “throw

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  culture The community Hunt house Hunt proper Friday: Kickoff ... heart for that. The community There's a notion, becoming stronger in the past few years, of a general puzzling community, seen in places like /r

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Congratulations! You’ve probably gotten into more than one college and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  gone to college all over country, few of them decided to take gap, but ... Physics, I joined [a technical college] as a Computer Science student. This college was like 3000 km away from my hometown, it was so weird. I was in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... college application essays since junior year, took SAT/ACT prep classes and practice exams until their hands cramped, extensively researched colleges

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  caveats: There’s more to life than grad school. And college. And school ... haven’t even read that many college essays compared to everyone else in ... real-world skills that I didn’t get from college. I also just really

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  as true in college admission circles as it is anywhere else that it ... offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... benefit from and contribute to this community, so to have the people in your

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  online community of peers sharing the same stresses and anxieties. College ... embarrassingly naive about college admissions. I had only a few ideas about colleges and had drafted a handful of generic essays, but really didn’t have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... to 2021... When I was applying to colleges in senior year of high ... that come with a degree from MIT, and although these things may not be as

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect ... ’t always consider that college was a thing. I remember sometime during

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015