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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Cheney," "The Al Franken") and Boston area colleges ("The Crimson," "The ... while at MIT, the school offers us the opportunity to be as happy as ... like the traditional standard college essay I'd always heard about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... invigorating energy of new college students captivate even the most hardened ... , conveniently being offered the very week you're struggling. You really thought

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  schools offer biology or BME (biomedical engineering), but there are very few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  in their seminars) and are open only to freshmen. The seminars offered ... preprofessional advisor through the MIT Careers Office; this advisor offers guidance ... 's supervisor asked him to work on a project for his Aero/Astro master's degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  amazing cook offers you this deal, take it.) My stomach was very happy that ... considering going back to the NIH, and I had an offer at Genentech, but I really ... the podium and undergrads on the other, and alternate awarding degrees

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore ... organizations do nothing except act as vessels to sell [college] student resumes ... writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... an architecture discovery class. In general, I want to use college to ... , because ~college is a time to explore~ and the closer I get to my future the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  feelings before/throughout/after college and always, so they're kind of ... survive college. It was harder than I expected to rip myself away from that ... degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... Harvard PHIL 179 lecture. Luckily, it’s a lot of fun, a “college classic” of ... MIT bubble. We’re in college but not part of it. Harvard makes us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  to be to succeed in any college, let alone an elite one), but I need ... grand scale like the rumors you hear about cutthroat colleges. I think ... 's degrees in pure sciences aren't very useful? Does that hold true with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  machine learning, have taken root in Black communities across the country ... a coefficient in an algorithm known as the electoral college, a ... rich. As an algorithmic process, the electoral college did not define

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  : "May we offer you a drink of life's water, a water so replenishing and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  reaching out and engaging with the community (I personally think it obligates ... two of his friends from Montana, who just moved to Boston for college ... begun my senior year. My last year of college. MY LAST YEAR OF COLLEGE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  student who will take an advanced course at the local community college ... Hollywood fantasy. NEWSFLASH... NO ONE MAKES IT AT MIT/COLLEGE (OR IN LIFE ... of "B" in the college course instead of the "A" that many of her peers

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as ... part of my transition to college. Second, [2] my colleague Mikey '05 ... college education isn't just about the classes - it's about educating the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  go abroad for college. Many wanted to come back in order to help ... stories to share. One of the other college counselors was Robert, an ... work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  sense of community that they found at mit, the exhilaration of solving ... have no chance @ this according to r/applyingtocollege and/or college ... ’t make the college app cut:  someone unsure and insecure. i had no idea

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  , but do you go regarding each new person you meet with some degree of ... time. Recently, I reached out to parts of the MIT Community via e ... and community, stories that let us know we’re not quite where we want to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

   concourse . Concourse is an amazing learning community through which freshmen can take ... , a pattern began to emerge--within the communities I necessarily had to ... impending degree attached to a bearable four-year timeline. They bridged the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  reserved for college decisions (I still remember it well). Good news: next ... ;Why College Rankings Are a Joke," the external proof that you can do ... on the way to getting what you want out of college. Not because of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016