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• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  earning my own pennies from saying “college went by so fast” and “the time seemed to fly by.” And even beyond just college, I’ve found myself ... available to me again after these next few years of college. So with all of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  college, not knowing what to do after graduation, realizing that your ... personal college experience, but every attempt ends up going on and on about ... the story-book college experience that I hoped for. But this is one of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... ; high school –> college"]pretty much linear direction of my life

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in ... . Or the 999th. When I started college, I used to think these steps would be huge: Go to college. Go to graduate school. ??? Be a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  of my college experience up until this point has been a joint venture ... whatever, this is more just talking about the college dating experience."]dating in college or finding people to talk to?[/annotation] What is it like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  college applications. Despite the temporal distance, the prose and the ... -to-last year of college, and hopefully, by then, I'll have a little better idea ... year out of college. I have no idea what my life will look like then

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  think about how that intrinsic aspect of my college experience won't be ... college experience so strongly? why does it feel like I've lived in Burton ... and trying to optimize the rest of my college experience since I feel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  between being a full time college student and spending my time with my ... college and now, 14 years from graduation, I prioritize sleep even more ... from high school? From college? If so, how do you keep up with these

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don ... -guessing their decision to go far away from home for college.   tolerate it ... College Confidential user who concocts all sorts of conspiracy theories

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... college apps will fade? but if you don't find college apps difficult ... housing assignments, marriage, college applications, military drafts, and

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  imagining a sample day at my future college. At that point in time, I had no ... of that sort, but I could imagine how the start of my college life ... college. It’s even helped serve as a nice means of[annotation note="darn it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  college apps at this time last year...lo and behold: "college essay dump ... college essays, i was applying for random scholarships in a desperate effort

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in ... that it is one of the few sports that you can pick up in college and be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  . Yeah. We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a college application or a job ... hard can I work, and what am I working towards?” And college is the next ... you’ll find another college that steals your heart. If you got denied

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don ... Bridge application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received ... the results of the National College Match. If you are not matched with

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is ... my feelings toward college. As many resources as MIT has, as many world ... scary, full of uncertainties. Entering college sure felt like that. But if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don ... application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received ... National College Match. If you are not matched with any school, we will send

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! You can ... my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received your application ... Bridge will announce the results of the National College Match. If you are not

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  for all I knew or cared. College? Yeah, it was something that I was ... college will most definitely not get you through it. And being rejected does ... ’m assuming that, especially after writing all of your college essays, you know

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... college. At the same time, take some time to thank your family for the ... !! When you're in college, you'll really come to appreciate the things they

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012