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• 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 Riley '16
  • October 2, 2014
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  college admissions community, and I have to say, it's something that I can ... first apartment I moved into after college to move down the red line. As ... community, a home away from home. Not only did you see an MIT that came in the

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... apparently suicidal man reading my college applications? There's a smart way ... , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Center for Bits and Atoms. In June, Spencer graduated with a degree in ... belongs to one of thirty-one colleges. I belong to a small one, Magdalene College (pronounced “Mod-Lin”). Originally constructed in 1428 as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  activities in the MIT community, including Chinese Students’ Club, the ... lot of pressures--MIT things, non-MIT things, college things, home ... community, hard at work pursuing projects, bright and energetic. One of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  College Confidential reaffirmed a lot of these beliefs in high school. If you have not heard of College Confidential, good for you. College Confidential is an online forum where parents and students discuss college

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  building, and she was kind enough to offer me a few square feet for the ... project armed with only two critical theory degrees, a cordless drill, and ... 's something about the community collaboration that makes it more special, like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... about your college applications. You can study like Hermione Granger to ... extracurriculars, and you can craft exquisite college essays. There are also a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  [/caption] The firehose analogy captured the imagination of the MIT community ... . There is a vague community of MIT-adjacent people interacting on Twitter ... , which you may remember from Robo-CJ writes a college app or Robo-CJ writes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... lots more in the future! :) 18. Visit four other Boston-area colleges ... that don't know, BOSE offers discounts on all their products to current

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... didn't go away like headaches should.   You hear it a lot. College ... professor gave me the full allotted time. "I was in college once, too," he

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  until she came to college. It was actually Kenneth who told her about them ... school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... because she was considering attending MIT. Having a strong Black community

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  ambitious people I know. And during the college application process, this can ... institution is like. College is a place where you'll be for the next 4-6 years ... earlier in life personally, during the college application process the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  I think the college essay is a lot like froyo. It comes in a variety ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  poor college students. Well, most of us are, I think. But allow yourself ... scans on Youtube and community wellness's website, but this is my short ... that MIT has to offer for those who are struggling with anxiety. MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  ’s support of the international and immigrant members of their community. Two ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B. A. from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey Extracurricular: Civil

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017