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  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  college trying to get a degree. 20. People have lived my life five times ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... took a gap year between high school and college, in which time I worked

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were ... . Students entering college this fall would have been just eight years old ... only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but ... your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major, you haven't found it. c) College education adds to your confusion, rather than clarifies it. d) College becomes just a motion, something you ... to the general college applicant. At the same time, though, we aim to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college ... unknown. And not getting into the “right” college meant that the future was ... , but three years ago, I wouldn’t think MIT was the “right” college to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  next house community"]I have nothing better to do,[/annotation]so I apply ... these problems, to build community, to engage all of the students over the course of just six weeks. In person, community comes naturally from living

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... degree. With just a glance, you can see the CMS option has much more free

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  reason to live. I stopped seeing the point of going to college and ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... , but all of us can be strong if we bond as one caring community. My

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  personally identifying information and let the community analyze it, because in the scientific community we trust data and analysis, not assertions ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  wanted to take his TV station national in 1979, he offered to donate $50 ... student groups on campus, WMBR has one of the largest direct community and ... /Harvard/Boston community have regular weekly shows, some of which have been on the air for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere ... communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following ... the most important things about college is its role as a socializing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is ... welcomed warmly into a community that admits fewer that 10% of its applicants

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  to publicize it. We talked to our data czars, our community working ... and all. Other colleges across the US run educational programs too ... staging, and getting ready to launch things on the day-of. The community

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  a good college and proved all the haters wrong! but mine was more like ... Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... days. I am crossing my fingers that the water is at least 50 degrees C

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  that a college thousands of miles away would send me mail of this ... CollegeConfidential links to angst-filled posts covering the spectrum of ... find out the status of my application. In that time, I joined College

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am ... so many wonderful universes around and within me, that college ... changed and split apart. College applications are tiny in comparison to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  , like many of you, i was waiting on college admissions decisions. today i ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... college admissions and life at my internet home, which, contrary to popular

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  age—you, the readers maybe, the future classes of MIT or colleges ... is the top school in my district, and gives a lot of college credits ... there. College wear... Right now, I've got West Point and [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020