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  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  college. A secondhand Lenovo ThinkPad T420. 4.78 pounds, supposedly ... to bring with them to college. But honestly, reflecting on my ... strategy is for buying a college laptop. On one hand, purchasing an old

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  College My favorite description of college is that it’s the special ... ’t yet have to clean your own bathroom. With college lecture videos available freely online, the main selling point of college is now the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  want is for college applications to add to that stress. We know that some

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  If you had asked me what I thought college life would be like back when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly pretty busy right?” Poor me. I had NO IDEA. Let’s run this through. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  -long event that brings over 1000 college students from around the world onto

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to ... despair, of giving up in just about every facet of life. College has been a ... became even more confused in college; for example, I became much less

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  first real interaction with MIT. For a majority of the college process the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  (other college apps, your classes, your friends)  until we release RA

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  college is quirky than by saying you live in a triangle? I had the room for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  the blogs here with great advice about writing college application

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  heading off to college, billed as perhaps one of the greatest changes my ... shift in my thoughts made the transition from high school to college less ... hackneyed clichés. But on my own terms. College is the best time to try what

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  should be soon.  I know the college application process can be, like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  until the last minute to contact us. ECs know that the college ... college interview. It’s perfectly ok to wear the same clothes you wore to ... your work will be a huge and important skill in college and beyond, and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  -knit friend group. This timescale felt too long for college: I wanted to meet

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  back in 2008 (wow, that makes me feel old ☹) when I applied to colleges

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  profitablity in placing Taco Bells all around a city filled with broke college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  , and Freedom University (a college for undocumented students).  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  I'll be honest—I had never really planned on going abroad during college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick than I realized...) It's a preposterous idea considering how many

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014