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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  fourteen days minus a Saturday, restaurants all over Boston offer special discounted Dine-Out Boston menus, so that even cash-pinched college students ... write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  archetypal startup founder is a college dropout with some coding skills and a ... -educated engineering or business experts with advanced degrees and significant research ... Center for MIT Entrepreneurship offers classes on entrepreneurship

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  become more important to you very fast, maybe to different degrees but it ... up for the first credit card you get an offer for, slow down. You ... that offered 9% interest, 5% rewards on purchases for restaurants, gas

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  college. You can find this event, along with all our upcoming offerings, at ... We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year ... applying to college, I sometimes felt like I didn’t have people to turn to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  Consider Becoming a Pony in College! Reason #1: You will have a much better ... other college kids will be envious of your majestic beauty and cool style ... ! Reason #6: School cafeterias now offer a variety of hay options to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  not be able to offer them admission. At that point, we will consider our ... college experiences, and we wish you all the very best at the college you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... college of those who have offered you admission. Waitlists are uncertain, so ... . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered about 1,000 applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the ... offer fantastic financial aid and everything else. Stephen Joel ... your parents, and perhaps grandparents, went to a particular college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should have received an email from us last Friday about completing the Wait List ... to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  gone straight to college. Therefore, the question wasn’t really what I was going to do; rather, it was where I would attend college. As my ... , I realized that I didn’t want to worry. I didn’t want to go to college

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  people. This dream took many forms when I got to college - I played solo in ... College Confidential: October 05, 2005 One of the most linked-to writings ... parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a College

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  get with this higher powered degree. I don't really want to go into ... master's degree in a year. Pros: You get a master's degree...in a ... master's degree. Cons: Might be hard to find a TA-ship (which is how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... college life afforded me. I was what some people call a "workaholic." I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason ... off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... , but I would discourage you from choosing your college ONLY by the amount

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  more than a bachelor's degree to get a chemistry- or biology ... with a master's degree or PhD, from what I understand there are jobs in industry open to people with only bachelor's degrees. Some people in my class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  physics or chemistry, much less considered pursuing them at college. I also ... expressed regret about not exploring more in college, while others told me ... petition 3.033 to count toward my degree! Of course, this isn’t to say that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  their college admissions-themed issue. Similarly, Newsweek featured a chat with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their college admissions-themed issue -- it is also worth a read. Here's the TIME

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006