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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... more fundamental than those other blog posts. In short: In college, you ... the end of the day, the choices you make in college are yours. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  college is the big, spacious rooms where lectures take place. When I imagined college in high school, I imagined being in one of these huge halls ... class, but course 3 (Material Science) offered a solid-state chemistry

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... offer me right now. I don't know how to explain this without making a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  are in college time seems to slip away. It’s been weeks since we’ve had ... '[/annotation]. Someone offers to bring me the ladder so I can get off rope, but I refuse to ... you go to college. I’ve changed a ton since I left for MIT. I should

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  Barcelona, IAP 2017   College study abroad programs are really ... ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a ... different cities within the month! There are typically three classes offered

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  . Luckily, I did have a résumé handy from the college application process. (I ... advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... college freshmen resume can look like! It's definitely not as daunting as it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... good-looking restaurants offering Asian foods in the area, with ... ” (more here). It’s a trip worth taking for the struggling college students

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  , this is the first time comics class has been offered; up until this ... .   For those of you who think your college major locks you into a set ... looming college applications, I’d have no time to actually see it through

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  – it’s a difficult adjustment to the college lifestyle, with the food ... me. College, man! Expectation: MIT doesn’t get hard until classes ... will offer advice on how to succeed, unless you’re me, in which case they

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  happened came up again and again. I am in my last year of college and I can ... back to Macgregor from the library? MITPD was always there to offer me a ... more. Life is way too short. Look, my four years of college are almost

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  . There were a few teachers who were very invested in my college ... imagine what it would be like to have people around me offering sympathy ... opinion, MIT - and any college - is first and foremost a resource. People

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2007 Member of the 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team ... , electricity workshops offered through the 4-H, and a problem solving competition

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  community college in which we literally took turns snoring away in the back of ... Study Guide put out by The College Board. This one has 8 full ... . There are tons of prep courses offered by Princeton, Kaplan, and even

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  being and took the hint, offering us lodging for the night on his couch at Ursinus College in scenic Collegeville, PA, located just 20 minutes outside ... realizing that the college would bear his name for all eternity. Also, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  college. A secondhand Lenovo ThinkPad T420. 4.78 pounds, supposedly ... offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many ... to bring with them to college. But honestly, reflecting on my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  awards that FIRST offers its teams. I worked my butt off, and the first ... always wanted to go to Hogwarts (college name pseudonym, for privacy ... her wherever she ended up going to college (she's now doing some crazy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  to CPW - I really had very little idea of what college life is like ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor ... classical mechanics called 8.01. Basically, 8.01 takes your typical college

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  take BC Calculus. At my school, they don't offer the class, however I can ... . It's no secret that college kids drink, and MIT is a college ... acknowledging that drinking happens, because the truth is, college kids are

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to write another uncomfortably personal essay [annotation note="unless you become a blogger, of course"]ever again[/annotation]! But, now comes the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y’all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month’s theme…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019