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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  science (at a university), industry (for biologists and chemists, often

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ... but remember, the entropy of the universe increases in all natural

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  college search! The college search is all about research. There are a bunch ... college will not be able to see your senior year, so make sure your Junior ... scores, you should aim to be as true to yourself as possible. The college

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  . For most students, college will be their first experience largely ... stereotypical broke-college-student way. Curious to find how others think of ... pain of college prices. More thoughts: "i have a spending tracking

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  ’s right. Field trips. In 2025. In College. Yep.  [caption id ... . Now I think I value a lot less what I accomplish while in college and more the person that I become while in college. I was so obsessed with

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• 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 / 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 / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  writing about a myriad of other things. I posted to College Confidential ... things until I got to college. Although you may not yet know what you ... 't regret it. If you're applying to college this year, my best advice is to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  college. ;) My amazing friends Yida and Sarah agreed to help me move my ... college students flooding into Boston right now), so I reserved a 10-foot ... college. Put the stuff that you do have in smaller boxes. From someone who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don ... . It’s why we have no honors college or even honors classes, no grade de ... competitive with other colleges, but never within itself. Difficulties and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  experience at college. Talking about the “living situation” aspect specifically, I’d expected to come to college becoming best friends with my ... to remember for myself. 6 tips about MIT, college, miscellaneous  1

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 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