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• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members ... can add a different dimension to the college experience that I knew ... river and forget the intensity that can be MIT is key to finding balance

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  , and then moved to sunny Boca Raton, Florida until college. Much like ... colleges, even up until my Junior spring. It wasn’t until senior fall that I ... shoulder, torn meniscus, and gallbladder surgery have kept me off the river

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  other universities up the river... Harvard-1997 No way would I ... , Facebook was once an exclusively college networking site. A way to keep in touch with your college friends. Then they made a high school facebook

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  college roughly the same way that I went through grade school - top grades ... engineer of cognitive systems at Charles River Analytics, an applied ... actually went on College Confidential, I'd see parents argue about this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as ... you, and who you trust, to read your college essays? Soccer. I don ... urges and it's hard to Hold 'Em... I just want to stroll along the River

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... institutions, while also answering questions you may have about the college ... told they are only admitted to colleges because of their race, gender, or

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  after Friday morning because all of the Frats across the river were ... group, also across the river) to take our first showers since arriving at MIT, Ewww! What can I say, we were living the college life. OK, so at

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  of the river of cupcakes that surrounded the mammoth cake) I marveled at the Prudential Building across the river all lit up with the words ... , and then I marveled at an awesome fireworks display over the river (ok

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for some pretty nice "class 4" rapids on the upper part of the river. We had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid ... Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM) Honors Summer Math ... summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... minor in the same field."]minor[/annotation] but does offer more coherence ... new College of Computing, which coordinates computing education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... : about jobs, about your ability to pay for college, and more generally ... realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... Simmons offer made-to-order stirfry, so you can "have it your way" without ... . (What more do college students want?) I'm a big fan of Alpine Bagel in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... Ben's entry, I read the thread. I did not know about College Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  school award for a piece I wrote. Then came time for college. Adults ... undergraduate students who choose to major in writing (MIT offers creative writing ... an undergrad degree, doing something technical and high paying in a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for ... ’s offered in both semesters (albeit with two different professors) so I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  . I decided that, moving forward into college, I didn't want to choose ... intersection.[/annotation] As my summer in the lab ended, the college ... computational neuroscience degree program for undergraduates. However, its regular

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  and technological research and development also offers a wide range of ... tournament in four years. "A lot of people don't know it, but they offer more ... and Vassar College, has helped several players reach the major leagues

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... place that makes you happiest. After all, it's YOUR college experience, no ... much promise you that. Those who aren't offered admission won't be upset

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  is visible from Boston across the river. MIT hackers have long used the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015