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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  in common, from nerdy interests to growing up near Seattle to being

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  sense when you get stuck between the two. Neither college is, of course ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  coming out the other side, starting with,   1. When I left college ... complexity, there’s college with its dizzying selection of programs, then you ... , astronomy has been an avenue for getting to know my community better -- at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , last minute SAT IIs and college applications. If there's any part of the ... college, though, there aren't any seating charts. And at first, it can be ... /science as gigantic suburban schools? I understand that going to college is not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other college) admissions ... . But not everyone who is deferred gets offered a spot in the class, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  handful of Ivy League colleges. But it was M.I.T. that pursued him the ... basketball." But when the Ivy League universities hesitated to make an offer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  plans for college life - what course I wanted to be, what dorm I wanted to ... Campus (it was love at first sight, and the EC community is by far the best ... reasons it’s one of the best colleges out there. However, to go back to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  to go to college, anymore? Because these are MIT admits, they usually ... April 2005, I had my own tricky time of deciding where to go to college ... , I opened an email. It was an unexpected, unsolicited job offer from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  volunteering for their communities the same way young people in the US volunteer ... experience, helping the community two-fold. For example, they recruited a ... own cousins had attended college. We’re still working, now, on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  mental health and community wellness at mit and represents my own coming ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people ... toons (a guest performance for the olin college powerchords): toons sang

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  mentioned that they made connections in their major or interested community ... community. This was one of the only classes where I felt like I was really ... .177: Astrobiology, Origins and Early Evolution of Life (1) It's not offered this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  't realize the degree until that conversation on Saturday night. In my post on ... less marginally exhausting to read. One pragmatic reason why your college ... basically any college you apply to, or frankly any sufficiently any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  recently and haven't vlogged in a while. Community, anyone?) So when ... the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  other part of me remembered how much better college is compared to high ... going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... I helped clean up Help Desk. It turned out that Help Desk was offering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  open your email. Hillary Clinton is offering you free food in 2-105. You ... socialize with college students beyond MIT. You find that everyone you meet ... . ‘15 The sun is shining. It’s 85 degrees. The sun is shining. Soft flakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  college, adapt to anything. In fact, I was a bit horrified of my freshman ... you can make friends there. Later on, when you establish a community

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  Simmons for the MIT community. Often times these are discussions ... following sports once I got to college. Or maybe I just enjoy getting a peek

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  's all too easy for MIT to become a bubble: your entire college existence ... exhausting routine. At the very least, take a walk. Get to know the community

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011