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• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... received rejection letters from some subset of the colleges that you applied

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... tomatoes) Steps: Preheat the oven to 425 or 450 degrees Fahrenheit ... when other people offer them to you, like almost all of the guys I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  college choice. She starts things off with the following from golfer Kelli Keuhne: "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... helpful before deciding which college to attend. Ask yourself the important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... , and single-digit-with-windchill-in-the-negative-twenties to 46-degrees-and-kinda-sunny weather shifts (throwback to my first Boston winter when I though 26 degrees

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at Aerospace ... you can graduate with an Aero/Astro degree from MIT :) (a typical ... that my full attentions will turn to a course 8 degree. Hey hey don't get

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... the part where it’s currently 77 degrees in South Florida, while here it’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  graduated from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984. Clara is a Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... the same thing. When I got there, I was just some college kid who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  Sheng Ler Mei. The show is targeted towards college students, and basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities in Taiwan with different majors and they discuss a bunch of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer ... * MIT offers this super duper cool opportunity to cross-register at 3

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  changes from home to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last ... and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to ... college? And besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  changes from home to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last ... and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to ... college? And besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  mine. A week before graduation, I got a job offer at a college access ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me ... college applications were selected or who did the selecting, so naturally

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a ... athletes I've coached from other colleges. About five years ago I stopped ... Olympics). We entered every event offered. We won most of them, but I think

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  this in college while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. Greg

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an ... bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. Certainly, he told us, he never

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  attend college. On September 8, 2006, four months after President George W ... scientist or engineer when she enrolled at MIT, earned two degrees in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... -fry the French fries and onion rings that college students love ever so much

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  college degree. Elizabeth Lozada said her family's pride for Isaac outweighs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  gets below 60 degrees here, we cry. So not only do I have to wrap my head around this whole thing of going to College, capital C, I have to wrap my

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

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  you post regularly on any admissions forums such as College Confidential ... and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006