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• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  of college life, self-deprecation, making fun of Harvard, and (best of ... around 6:30 PM, around 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and above me I could feel the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  more hiking over the slushy Harvard bridge in 20 degree weather. (It ... happened. Also, as four college students trudging in from a trip over a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  seniors/rising college freshmen. And of those 13 seniors, 10 are in the MIT ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  . (Thanks, college!) But to focus on the mostly positive, here are the things ... water fluctuates from about low 40s to 60 degree Farenheit. It's something

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  varying degrees of involvement in extracurricular activities. There was an ... regards to where I will be going to college, MIT is a very unique

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  / different goals. The degree that you receive is the same either way. If you ... college because they are easy or because you want a shiny trophy of a second

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  little about home. As was expected of college students back home on break ... Fort Lauderdale this morning, it was eighty-four degrees out. (Twenty

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... from kenya." If you haven't enrolled in a bachelor's degree program, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  decision yet, because I neither have a full time job offer nor a graduate ... AND get a full time job offer and have to choose between the two. I get into graduate school and don't get a full time job offer. I get a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  their family to graduate from college, and which offers advanced ... to come to a central meeting. And then I call their college counselors ... understand what a selective college admissions process looks like 'from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  't really have much to offer. I was looking around me and realizing that the ... offering quick or permanent solutions to problems I thought were probably ... sophomore year of college, a friend lent me a copy of Feel the Fear and Do It

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... school does not offer any calculus classes...I also worry about not being able to take AP classes, as they are not offered at my school. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  until a few weeks ago, i'd never had a college spring break (spreak ... and would be crowded with way too many rowdy college students. Puerto ... , and we were flying back to Boston to be greeted by 19 degree weather! it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  home ruminating about things i could’ve done differently in college, and ... spend in college. if i knew about covid i’d have spent more time exploring ... think it’s possible, to varying degrees of effectiveness depending on what

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... me the average daily temperature was 6.5 degrees Fahrenheit), so we ... get as many piercings as I wanted once I went to college. All I would

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve-wracking. You don't really get a chance to redo college, but that doesn't stop you ... . In high school (and middle school, and elementary... and college), I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else ... his father's college workshop.  To be able to make whatever I dreamed up ... detect front and back foot taps with a fair degree of accuracy.  But you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  link for the College Board so you can check the dates. You're welcome ... helpful, but only to a degree. Class Rank means different things at ... a little bit different from most other students on college campuses

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009