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• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and nothing else 🧄

  

  months later.  And when my offer popped up in my inbox, I thought perhaps ... cups, but for this flavor we offered a cone option (though it doesn

  • by Joy X. '29
  • September 18, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  student knows more code than college chemistry). The biggest thing to be ... college-level class -- Go for it! You have nothing to lose on PNR, you like ... everything else that makes college and MIT special. There was always something

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  realizing I have free will as a college student—I’ve never been on my own ... school to take part in a school-wide panel about the college transition. I ... ’s superlative contest… Transitioning to college, I definitely struggled a lot

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  ". and maybe 15% had happened in college, and 5% afterward. and to paolo ... biased to believe that because the ways that i changed in college were more ... first time. and the values of HS me may have been kept throughout college

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  college applications[/annotation] and senior year made us less than excited ... tournament and stayed at a rural college dorm 45 minutes away from the city ... /actually different year. Part of that is almost definitely moving to college, but also

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  them.   STEP 2: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN COLLEGE. This is a ... high school, you're probably not going to learn how to drive in college. That's okay. It's likely that the public transport around your college is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  “college experience,” whether it’s becoming best friends with your roommates ... day. This is particularly useful when the rest of college is… not super ... . There are so many ways to find your people in college, and I want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , to guiding me through college sports. It was comforting to know that if I was struggling or confused, as one often is in college, I always had ... experience. If you find something at college – a club, a dorm, an athletic team

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  that with me into college. I wasn't particularly well liked in high ... now in college and figuring out what aspects to keep and throw away ... lessons left to be learned. I also wanted to remind myself that college isn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  ups and downs, ranging from failing my first college midterm to becoming an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College ... night and woke up at 7:00. It was really nice. Then I came to college and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  away. Who were a world separate from the encompassing universe of college ... very last minute. My college counselor, who sat with me the evening ... forward. To those currently submerged in college applications, a few things

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the ... affects my actions in reality. Seriously, I wrote like three college essays ... college applications? Affirmative action could have a field day with that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

   The New York Times article “Why College Rankings Are a Joke,” MIT is ranked second on the list of best colleges for veterans. However, the Institute ... college funding makes! MIT’s program coordinators would never have to worry

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... learned in college. After that, in twenty years, it’ll be hard to explain to ... ") For a college student, supermarkets are like Toys R Us to 7 year olds

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  app that manages the schedules of college students (because everyone on my team is a college student). We can design apps that connect acapella college groups (because no one on my team is in an acapella group). To help

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  makes college hard...if it were just school, I could handle it, but there ... rigorous and exciting challenge of our whole life thus far. College students (all college students) are high capacity individuals, pushed to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  colleges would start their own blogs based on the MITAdmissions model. They ... , and so a college admissions site with a) student-written blogs and b ... they do to the blogs, because that's where their friends are. College

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  college experience not defined in bulk by beer pongs and drunk friends, I ... 's integrated so well into my ongoing college experience that heading to ADPhi for ... my college experience, and I understood that it was completely false. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  second. After we all finished talking about our colleges, one woman raised ... parts of either coast ever wonders why a consortium of sexy colleges comes ... to college. Until one day, this blogger picked up an issue of Popular

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  HAPPENS AGAIN IN COLLEGE. BEWARE.) Four years ago this time, I was sitting ... someone out to one of them. Party with Boston-area college students, get to ... . Don't get addicted to coffee; don't drink Monsters. Apply for a College

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011