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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  . These high schools are not included in the College Board list of CEEB ... offer an interview to every student in China; many students' interviews ... year in addition to your college applications. Best wishes!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . ------------------------ Karen wrote: "My college counselor... made my essay look like it came straight out of 'What Colleges Want to Hear.' (If that existed, she would ... wrong with asking a counselor to review your essay(s) and offer feedback

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  high school courses and colleges. McGee said he's happy to offer them any ... head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  minor in college and this is my chance to explore music in a tangible ... much stress and challenge. a degree? job security? name? but no, no i don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  competitive high schools, ran the college-admissions rat race, and kept running ... (which involves a personal statement, a plan for finishing your degree, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby ... (104 degrees over the weekend, in my new Fahrenheit vocabulary. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  burg, and I could count down the miles to home. I live in State College ... kilometers every day, barefoot, rain or shine, in temperatures above 27 degrees

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... week may be some of my thoughts about the college essay, although those

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... are a bunch of different classes, each of varying degrees of difficulty

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  MIT for college, reason #65932 Adam, my beautiful curly-haired rocket ... project that he'd really like Adam to take on for his master's degree. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  a degree in the newly-created Course 10B: Biochemical Engineering ... any college, ever and opens a million doors to boundless possibilities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  University for 7 years before going up to Boston for college but this was my ... in some suite in Branford College (a residential college of Yale). The ... majors from NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Yale, Connecticut College at my table. A

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But ... believed that getting into a dream college was a binary decision. I believed that on some gloomy judgment day after college applications were in, all

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to offer free food. As a frugal freshman, you can use this to your ... school here. And picking up a Boston Symphony Orchestra college card (which ... should actually get a college card instead of settling for video streams

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  are you from? Mass College of Art?" "Nope." "Boston College?" "Nope ... school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... idea of majoring in history in college (but called it off because the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  of college. I found that the more I was up and about, forcing myself to ... life at college. And my advice for you is precisely that. To echo Paul ... 's rigorous courseload - to allow you to explore what MIT has to offer while not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  interested in pursuing physics beyond my undergraduate degree. There's a good ... paths I see for myself. Course 8 also offers a flexible major, called 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... levers. If you don’t want the hassle of owning a bike, MIT offers

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  degree. Please do stop by and see your advisor on registration day." and I ... more about them, and he offered to hold an entire extra session for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and ... Teck was a 98-pound Singaporean who graduated MIT with a master's degree

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006