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• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus ... makes MIT's housing system so unique - most freshmen at other colleges get ... offers seminars, there are fewer choices available than for those in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  about transfer applications? I am a sophomore in college right now and ... -generation college kids, poor kids from poor school districts, and others who might be ... typically freshman classes also offer tutoring for those who are struggling

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... on entering college. So click away! If you’re like me, then in the weeks preceding college you’re frantically reading everything ever on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college ... college essay is yours. For more, see this writing advice from Chuck ... passions. Highlight quirks. You can’t fit everything into a college essay, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College ... College, and then home safe by the gentle hour of 6:30AM. All this, dear ... college stories to cat applications, or some amalgamation of those, and she

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  ! Fast-forward four months. Not only did she apply to the College of ... exponentially throughout the college application process. The young lady that I ... 's family... but in many ways every student of color that I admit to college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  that clear."]I miss college application season.[/annotation] I miss the research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  nghi wrote, "can you write about the new management minor offered at ... 's a snippet: ...while many universities offer management majors or ... offerings. To better link this academic component to the real world, students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus radio station, WMBR. It was a completely spontaneous decision; I had never even made…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  a real college meet before, i honestly was just looking to have fun. i ended up jumping 8’ 8.25 (the conversion is weird since college track uses ... ’ for the 1st time in college, but after that i had to get on larger poles

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  also knew a lot of people from college who took the path you described ... at hacklodge, a one-week program where ~20 college students live in a ... with the privilege of a) having gotten a math/cs degree from mit b) being

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social ... interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored ... know a lot of college students, especially at mit, who have carefully

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  ’t F*** This Up”). New planner! Because I’m all grown up and in college ... laziness and (to some degree) hoarding. As a result, my once-barren room has ... beverage healthiness might be close to that of a normal college student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  'll meet people you will stay friends with throughout college, even if you ... ;insert your own> degree of seriousness? In my personal opinion, the MIT ... programs are good, but obviously can't compete with real art colleges

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  visualizes dependencies and degree requirements, and lets you drag and drop ... that I had in fact already graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in ... charted my voyage through the degree requirements. I then added another

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  events highlighted across college campuses such as the University of Missouri, Yale University, and Ithaca College. For the first time since the ... ”. Chris Welch even offered to take a professional photo outside Killian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short ... to please follow your school policy if possible. However, your offer of ... th, 2020 Admitted and prospective students The College Board

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... -MIT subscription food services that offer more flexibility and clarity for a larger variety of diets. They all offer cheaper options and discounts for first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  that certain courses, like workshops or oversubscribed offerings, will ... offer after this announcement. Late Drop a class if absolutely necessary ... . Everything is presented differently in college. Don’t fear to plunge into the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  People at MIT walk fast. Maybe this is an east coast thing, maybe it’s a college student thing, maybe it’s just an “I grew up in laid ... student here: $300 per day. (Big clarification–MIT offers one of the most

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025