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• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as a college admissions officer. Occasionally, this young man had a hard

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  college, and they're understandably nervous about what the next few months ... up at a good college doing something I loved once the whole application

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  college. I think I will go. This summer, after graduation. Graduation. And there I go again, getting all queasy thinking about life after college

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  effort, managed by M.I.T. students, that has 25 college teams around the ... parts or designs. I thought writing for my college newspaper was cool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  College Women Competition. At Oxford, Melis will do the M.Sc. in integrated ... when she was among 32 college students from across the country, including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  The Ultimate Showdown The Laptop vs. The Desktop So you're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... college with both a laptop and a desktop, but my first laptop was a tad old

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college ... in your life. In the end, wherever you ended up for college, you were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  decision deadlines for many colleges, including MIT, are fast approaching, so college apps are likely still an irksome item on your mind. I'm in Southern

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The ... is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and ... : Calvin and Hobbes Advice about applying to college/MIT: There's no one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  neediness in terms of paying for college, are from middle class families. I really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  as a local college fair last evening. At the college fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  . Scholarships are nice. They provide you money for college (offsetting your Self ... points are Sallie Mae's College Answer and FastWeb. Unfortunately, many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those ... . Usually there are college Fellows present who dine at the head table. This ... realized I should maybe explain about the college system at Cambridge because

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  coding we managed to get our gyro (which drifts 5 degrees) accurate to within .1 degrees. That made it a very useful tool. By three in the morning

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  's often very windy, and that day it was about -8 degrees C. But inside the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  degrees from this fine institution!"]Charles and Henry Greene

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  degrees), it isn't for ASEing things, so I didn't get any credit. I was kind

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  who are pursuing their degrees while somehow squeezing in time between

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018