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• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  play a varsity sport in college. I was always decent, but never top of ... people do not start until college. In rowing, for example, the size of the ... entered university. Even if you think you are not athletic enough, or are

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  percent of top positions in mainstream media. In a Brown University study of ... Conference for College Women Student Leaders in College Park, Maryland, and met

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  experienced physical attraction to conventionally attractive females and tried ... significantly less physical attraction in general. it’s truly bizarre that ... mind these days: that it’s very hard to make friends after college (my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  many, many, many more. My life as a college student has pretty much been ... well beyond trying to get into college.   In my first couple of ... a recipe for disaster, for physical, mental, emotional health

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  should review for Physics. I know, I'll start at Chapter 1, page 1." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way ... doing better at my job or for learning new things. As a college student I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  process behind selecting a freshman class. Getting into college isn't just ... excited exclamations. I know that my physics professor has an unhealthy ... . In everything from physics to philosophical issues in brain science

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  university in Cambridge. "They do things there that haven't been done before ... and Vassar College, has helped several players reach the major leagues ... Mangrum, making a play for MIT baseball team, had missionary zeal in college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  powerhouse Bemidji State U, Boston-area business college Babson, and the City College of New York. Just curious wrote, "This has probably already been ... health are big issues on every college campus. If you are concerned about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  -to-know-you questions ended with college apps? Nope! “Tell us about who you are, your ... student, right? Surely I had academic interests as well. And yeah, physics ... up one day with absolutely zero interest in physics or crafts, I didn

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  -caliber state university system, it's to encourage students to attempt college ... So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of ... only did so because of pressure from elite colleges. Or arrange

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  over 2 months in AP physics in which im doing well, but I'm taking the ... 'm applying early and I did research at a college for two years in a row. I ... college but still wanted to study at MIT as a freshmen.. is it possible? Or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  (read [...shock!]: math and physics!), watching him skin his knees in the ... college is not my entire life, and I am unwilling to let it be. I think that ... and fascinating place to spend your college years and it's great that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

   high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  facetime screenshot with Danny about to blink it seems! STEVEN UNIVERSE!!!!!!! STEVEN UNIVERSE!!!!!!! I REPEAT STEVEN UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE WAS A ... experience called A Piece of the Universe! Another thing I did, partly in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  English to Math to Physics to Chemistry. [caption id="attachment_112122 ... and AP Physics suddenly came back to me after years of not studying them ... go abroad for college. Many wanted to come back in order to help

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  dad who asked about MIT statistics, the astro-physics girl ... have one of my own: My mom currently attends community college part time ... ;" for education level, choose "Some college." How's that sound? Leon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  anxious students and family members who are going through the college ... literally only been 8 months since I had college apps"]as an elder now ... ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  cool, both physically and virtually, so please, send me emails! Last ... of failure or disappointment here at college. It was a pretty rocky ... for me. There’s the very obvious physical places--the neighborhood we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  a fifteen-minute bus ride. Or MIT and Boston University, or MIT and Northeastern, or MIT and Boston College; these were all at most half ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] the mentioned universities are highlighted in red

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a plexiglass wall? Is there another universe? Where does that one end? Try as you ... 't really hiring, at least not college grads, so I've got to whip out that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009