Blog / How to Human Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck. third essay prompt on a college app. And it'll probably happen more than by Ceri Riley '16 September 13, 2013
Blog / How to Human Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I sketched up this guide on one of my flights after 4 hours of intense analysis. Or maybe 20 minutes of doodling on napkins, you can decide.   by Natnael G. '15 January 22, 2013
Blog / MIT Life My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling. college football, lines from movies, knowledge of sub-saharan wildlife, etc by Elizabeth Choe '13 October 23, 2012
Blog / Admissions A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far. between spending winter break completing the 14 college applications you by Anastassia B. '16 August 27, 2012
Blog / MIT Life Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch Arizona desert, where I spent the remainder of my pre-college days in the by Maggie L. '12 June 24, 2012
Blog / MIT History & Culture Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine. and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them by Kim Hunter '86 June 6, 2012
Blog / Art, Literature, Music Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met! college student and courts her. However, Rosina’s guardian Doctor Bartolo by ARTalk March 20, 2012
Blog / Admissions The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I… just chalked up my high school record (and my college choice) to natural by Emad T. '14 November 24, 2011
Blog / Challenges Small Victories The view from a month into MIT starting to feel the weight of college applications on their shoulders.] In by Kirsten L. '15 October 8, 2011
Blog / Academics & Research MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior ease of college life. It's a wonderful luxury to drop the pretenses once by Rachel F. '12 September 15, 2011
Blog / Admissions Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry... inspire young Latinos to go to college and create telepathic biorockets just by Chris Peterson SM '13 August 17, 2011
Blog / Miscellaneous I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing. your college essays. I just finished working with the MITES and E2 kids by Chris Peterson SM '13 August 15, 2011
Blog / MIT Life A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here… . –Baker: Largely athletic and "social". Lots of "normal" college kids by Chris M. '12 July 29, 2011
Blog / MIT Life What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”? college art school friends would scoff “Oh cut it out, you are so NOT queer by Kris Guay July 4, 2011
Blog / Art, Literature, Music Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond. go to other colleges or are friends of MIT members. Most of them are by ARTalk May 22, 2011
Blog / Admissions More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW! . When Olin College of Engineering asked me if I wanted to attend their by Cam T. '13 April 4, 2011
Blog / Uncategorized Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT smart enough to get into MIT for their college years? I've always been a by Kris Guay March 30, 2011
Blog / IAP Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it. dramatically after college, junior year became the "just do it" era. This motto by Rachel F. '12 February 14, 2011
Blog / Academics & Research Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM! sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to by Jenny X. '13 September 30, 2010
Blog / MIT Life Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out… experienced my first two college birthdays. Okay, I should clarify that too: *I by Kate R. '14 September 19, 2010