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  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college ... college essay is yours. For more, see this writing advice from Chuck ... passions. Highlight quirks. You can’t fit everything into a college essay, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College ... College, and then home safe by the gentle hour of 6:30AM. All this, dear ... college stories to cat applications, or some amalgamation of those, and she

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  ! Fast-forward four months. Not only did she apply to the College of ... exponentially throughout the college application process. The young lady that I ... 's family... but in many ways every student of color that I admit to college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  that clear."]I miss college application season.[/annotation] I miss the research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social ... interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored ... know a lot of college students, especially at mit, who have carefully

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US ... , when they offer me tomato salad at dinner, they have no idea that I

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... someone with a polaroid camera. They called out, offering to take a free

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... an anecdote from my college-application era, which now feels like half

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... neck deep in the spooky swamp of college apps. Or blissfully

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... workshops in creating different marks using our supplies, which offered me a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , going into my junior year of college, i’m almost done. it took me long ... people in my life who have offered me referrals and to edit my stuff and to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  less than 5. 3,689 were not offered admission. That's 24.46%. Those are ... classmates. The transition to college is hard. There's no need to rush it. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  into this exchange program for imperial college london. study math in the ... me housing. unfortunately, this is not a normal summer. i was offered a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  . MIT can offer you everything in terms of academics. I could not ask for ... friends is never easy either as everyone goes on different paths for college

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  's what I can offer, because that's what has helped me most this semester ... day or yours. Remember there is life outside a college decision, or a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  College about 30 minutes away. (On another note, my bike lock got stuck. I ... especially appreciate the time and guidance our coaches offer. Having feedback

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  . Weekend 5 Fun fact: I am a dancing machine. Does MIT offer outlets to my ... several colleges nearby hosted a cruise to unify school cultures into a heap

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  /maybe/possibly change in the future. With as many exciting majors as MIT offers, I'm not ... introduction to MIT level classes. For those of us whose first time on a college

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  offer a final decision (admitted or not admitted) to many more students ... everything else in the college admissions process (SAT scores, GPAs, etc), raw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  all-nighters to get my college applications in, and neither should you ... that when they offered to replace one for free a couple years ago, they

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010