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• 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 Paolo 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  great, but still - six hours is a long time for a college student! I mean ... 's true: even though you spend far less time actually in class as a college ... , MIT also has, like most colleges, teaching assistants (TAs). TAs are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  College Confidential about how great people have done on their AIME or SATs ... yourself (no need to re-copy your college essay; think more of a personal ad ... grown throughout our first months of college. This year, both of our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  colleges really interact/hang out? The first part is harder than the second ... , I only know what I read on College Confidential. I know that Carnegie ... college students. Winter coats Hamster asked, Approximately when is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  , and transfer to community college. Hopefully not :) but I'm still scared ... college this semester. It's...kind of sad, actually. It's hard here, and you ... at a local college. Do these credits transfer over to MIT next fall or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  take five college-level courses, receive college admissions and financial

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  -pop" which to me sounds how it felt to apply to college, haha. Kind of like how ... college and afterwards. He uses lines that cut sharper than a knife and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025