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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  into our Athena locker. Many communities in MIT have an Athena locker ... we sometimes write on the blogs, we write all MIT degrees when ... effect.']master's degree[/annotation] in urban planning. Now, he works for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . Two. When I first started out with college decisions, I had the belief ... first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  opportunities or basically show professors that I have something to offer... when in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... academics, and the college experience is not *just* the classes - it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have ... more fundamental than those other blog posts. In short: In college, you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , college. People asked me, I wondered, why am I working so hard if there’s no ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept ... to create and then create. Like my clubs, a community of people I share

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... know an FSILG community through casual day-to-day events, as opposed to ... dream. Every day made me feel like I was at a college-student summer camp

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These ... others better, I grew really excited about the ASA community. At ASA ... were made me proud of all our communities and the future of them. (I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  occasionally, disgustingly burped. Regrettably, we were unable to offer the Milk ... . Fortunately, the Milk remains a bubbly member of the Random Hall community, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  that. There was a sense of joy because the MIT community had really come ... the impact COVID-19 is having on communities is unimaginable, but I ... ’ve received so many emails offering support and help. It’s just a really good

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ+ Community at MIT, I asked current and former bloggers if they would be willing ... people within the LGBTQ community who would likely not consider me truly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  myself to the MIT community? Self-deprecatingly, that's how.  Before I ... organizational skills during college.  That might have been okay in 2007.  In 2009 ... steered me through college as if it were leading me somewhere, rather than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 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 / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... academic offerings at MIT. But the two seniors in our group both said they’d spend more time with the people around them, taking in the community and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  , academics still trump clubs, since in theory you’re in college primarily to ... perspectives of undergrads and grads as well as non MIT college experiences ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  responding classmate's current job situation. I also listed graduate degrees if ... MEng) Cognitive Science Professor at UCSD (University College London Ph

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... any college, public or private, work hard for four years, and end up ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  college has to offer without overworking or stressing yourself out to the ... Eigenverantwortung Adultness panned out. I had received the offer to study abroad at ... :  Accept the offer to study at ETH  Pick classes from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018