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• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  everything from college admissions, to getting a great job opportunity, to ... leave for college, almost all the days in your life that you’ll spend with ... . After college, it becomes a lot harder to make friends.  As you go from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome myself, which is something I didn’t know in college ... from college, this is something that has become an integral part of my ... would have been helpful, in college, to have known that I was autistic

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  that here – i sure had some reckonings with my first year in college =D ... before college, but when I joined I decided that I didn’t want to ... -nighter psetting with. College is great! It’s really been a chance for me to explore

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure ... ✨first college spring break✨. Like many MIT students, I decided to travel ... Quarter of the city are much too expensive, and we're college students

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  the morning, I was applying to college. I lived in New York, I spent ... person hunched over a coffee and her college essays. Almost like I have ... year, but not exactly; with the fact that my entire college experience

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  real reason - college Jeopardy auditions. College Jeopardy requires a ... things that I prided myself in the most before coming to college. Maybe it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is ... time to be concerned about building your college admissions resume, or ... affect your college application. Your specific activities were never what

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  ? Do they even want to go to college, anymore?   Because these ... i thought were really important about college (technical rigor ... ?” And college is the next step to answering that question and pursuing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself facing more questions about identity in general in college. This year, I ... do are all important.   Finding Meaning As I said, in college, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  I do in this area for a summer job?” Experimenting in College Stuff I've experimented with in college: Mathematics, Theoretical (Course 18-3): brief ... . Conclusion: college has been fun, but I still have no idea what I will do in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have ... ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... the book that I have re-read every summer of college, from 2014 til now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  about college essays. It's interesting how life changes. A year ago, college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  After attending many entrepreneurship networking events as a college ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don ... Bridge application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received ... of the National College Match. If you are not matched with any school

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  atmosphere. Her first job out of college was programming for Jim Elliot at MIT ... . She studied astrophysics at Wellesley College and then went on to ... physics and math major from Sienna College. She appears in the New Horizons

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  in college? Nope. College, high school, grad school, all the chapters ... remind you that, like wearing Spandex, college is a priviledge and not a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  two of his friends from Montana, who just moved to Boston for college ... begun my senior year. My last year of college. MY LAST YEAR OF COLLEGE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  college stuff, and cried about leaving home. My parents dropped me and my ... impressive than getting into college. I’ve realized over the past two years ... decisions page: We know that applying to college is stressful, and that the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  home than MIT and I was the first child in my family going off to college ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... an amazing college experience!

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... world. I remember thinking about how old college students seemed all ... junior year of college. The workload has increased substantially, but I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010