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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  college in Colorado, I still would have felt that displacement of "home ... . Trinity College ‘17 at Senior Ball Some of the DPhiE seniors at a senior ... Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... anyone I know was the week before their college applications were due, you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  complexity, there’s college with its dizzying selection of programs, then you ... independent. When you leave college you abruptly lose a huge number of external ... “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... epiphanies that I keep thinking of… Or that I keep recounting whenever someone from home asks my all-time-favorite “How’s college?!?!” Wooo - Here’s a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  classic american college experience: classes, clubs, a diverse group of ... "]simmons[/annotation], i struggled a lot with the inconveniences of living in a college dorm ... indicative of many things: i was still very much adjusting to the college

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  a reason. 30) It's okay if college isn't the best four years of your ... success. College still gives students the security blanket of grades and ... I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... fiction). 3. How has your college decision impacted the rest of your life ... unhappiness and burnout. On college admissions specifically: of course it's easy

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... student center study sessions, a few office hours, and a lot of late

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  different from most other universities where you register several weeks or months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... hate most about this time of year. I've never had a good spring semester ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to ... that got a lot of attention, and I thought it might be a good idea to go

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010