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• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  probably included. During my own preview weekend, I went to an event where ... something with a pile of Legos that seemed to reach my knees. Knowing no one ... weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... various aspects that I've come to gain a better understanding of after my ... degrees). * To my credit, I was fluent in Python prior to entering MIT, so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Harvard, of words. Even PHIL 179 becomes HAA.2457 on my transcript. The MIT ... the world). I have access to it with my Participant Harvard ID. I ... approximately twenty hours, or about seven weeks of three-hour visits. My

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

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  time acquiring employment. So this blog post is about my personal ... internships in April, before my internship for 2019 had even started. [caption ... glimpse at my jobs spreadsheet. i had shortlisted and applied to most of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  my own meta-survey asking people to take surveys, is scientific either ... know it’s stupid”, which sums up my own opinion pretty well too. There ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my ... where I thought my life would go, I wasn't even close. I would've guessed ... in Random Hall, and it saved my sanity many, many times. The chocolate

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything ... here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us ... had my way, College Confidential would be wiped off the face of the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  mile of my house, and/but all of them were [annotation note ... getting all my groceries here might bankrupt me, given the kind and quantity ... —  according to both their research and my personal experience —  25%-35% less

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite season. One of my biggest lessons of 2015 (and 2014 and 2013 and 2012) is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... . My froshling battery, supercharged during Orientation, sent alarming

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  Admissions people, my classmates are a ridiculously talented bunch with the ... Boston, read one of my previous entries here The view from my sophomore year room in Next House (my Baker rooms have better views but I don

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy ... , which is why I'm going to reprint my first-ever College Confidential post ... officer. Nothing I say here is official policy. It's my interpretation of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT ... , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  points.  ~~~  Tl;dr: I made desserts inspired by my favorite Avatar ... show, and it blew. my. mind. I was amazed at how a children’s show could ... Diaries💀💀 but I digress"]show.[/annotation]   Meanwhile, sometime in June, my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  of the Time". Philippine science fairs, back in my day, always had ... capitalists and founders" and "a low-code authentication solution". To which my ... custom keyboard shortcuts; I've talked about my thought process before too

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... of my family, my fraternity, and the rest of the MIT community. And I ... pennies and published them in my post My Two Cents. I got a lot of responses

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  about it among my peers and self on the Internet and in real life. I study ... room or a friend's room (or in my case, my favorite spot on the sidewalk ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... fewer go on to college. School. Otherwise known as my second home. I ... student looked at the coins in alarm. I continued my little improv act

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011