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• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... from some degree of "regression." there's something about going back to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  't have a college degree or a fancy job title, Matt Damon still had a story

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  , and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... 're in college. Fresh start, right? You'll make TONS of new friends. You

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look ... relocating to Boston College over the summer, I've had my hands full in chasing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my time at MIT or if I want to jump into a career straight out of college

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In ... page 5 join an MIT club, turn to page 7 get another degree, turn to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... college with a definitive plan for their lives at an age where they

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  of college life, self-deprecation, making fun of Harvard, and (best of ... around 6:30 PM, around 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and above me I could feel the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  more hiking over the slushy Harvard bridge in 20 degree weather. (It ... happened. Also, as four college students trudging in from a trip over a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  seniors/rising college freshmen. And of those 13 seniors, 10 are in the MIT ... participating in the IMO, Lander went on to Bachelors and Doctoral degrees in math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  . (Thanks, college!) But to focus on the mostly positive, here are the things ... water fluctuates from about low 40s to 60 degree Farenheit. It's something

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  varying degrees of involvement in extracurricular activities. There was an ... regards to where I will be going to college, MIT is a very unique

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  / different goals. The degree that you receive is the same either way. If you ... college because they are easy or because you want a shiny trophy of a second

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  little about home. As was expected of college students back home on break ... Fort Lauderdale this morning, it was eighty-four degrees out. (Twenty

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... from kenya." If you haven't enrolled in a bachelor's degree program, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  decision yet, because I neither have a full time job offer nor a graduate ... AND get a full time job offer and have to choose between the two. I get into graduate school and don't get a full time job offer. I get a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  their family to graduate from college, and which offers advanced ... to come to a central meeting. And then I call their college counselors ... understand what a selective college admissions process looks like 'from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... squalor. So, for your edification... First degree squalor: You are getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  't really have much to offer. I was looking around me and realizing that the ... offering quick or permanent solutions to problems I thought were probably ... sophomore year of college, a friend lent me a copy of Feel the Fear and Do It

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015