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• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  also be a stupid way to pick a college. Just sayin. =) It had astounding ... college, they're more likely to seek out extra challenges and programs for ... young people fresh out of a college, who really believe they really can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... literature (though there are other great colleges that do, like Chicago and St ... 've taken two math classes at a local college this year. will my credits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  student knows more code than college chemistry). The biggest thing to be ... college-level class -- Go for it! You have nothing to lose on PNR, you like ... everything else that makes college and MIT special. There was always something

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  year already mentally used to college life and living in a dorm and the intensity of social life in college, so it wasn’t completely overwhelming like ... follow. I had all the “mental framework” of college that I had developed in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  realizing I have free will as a college student—I’ve never been on my own ... school to take part in a school-wide panel about the college transition. I ... ’s superlative contest… Transitioning to college, I definitely struggled a lot

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  ". and maybe 15% had happened in college, and 5% afterward. and to paolo ... biased to believe that because the ways that i changed in college were more ... first time. and the values of HS me may have been kept throughout college

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  college applications[/annotation] and senior year made us less than excited ... tournament and stayed at a rural college dorm 45 minutes away from the city ... /actually different year. Part of that is almost definitely moving to college, but also

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  those days."]impending reality of college decisions[/annotation]. Still ... a college student’s perspective, I really, really miss being able to ... , meal prep, and cooking as a college student, then added those videos into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  them.   STEP 2: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN COLLEGE. This is a ... high school, you're probably not going to learn how to drive in college. That's okay. It's likely that the public transport around your college is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  “college experience,” whether it’s becoming best friends with your roommates ... day. This is particularly useful when the rest of college is… not super ... . There are so many ways to find your people in college, and I want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  at University College London for the fall semester. I felt very stuck ... do after college and I'm gaining a lot of insight of what I want out of ... necessary as all the other summers I've had in college. And I'm excited for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  remember back in high school, every college admissions officer highlighted ... college; others advertised a research internship as early as sophomore year ... factor in my college decision-making. In hindsight, I’m grateful I wound up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  what I have to be and do in college. In high school, I think you have this very fantastical idea of what your college life is going to be life ... to be in college. You can shed the skin of your old high school self

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  even the worst story that’s happening. Hundreds of thousands of college students are being sent home from colleges across the country, back home ... went from a normal college existence to leaving campus because of a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  away. Who were a world separate from the encompassing universe of college ... very last minute. My college counselor, who sat with me the evening ... forward. To those currently submerged in college applications, a few things

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  into “adult” things when it's “college no parents.” Don’t feel the ... would love your input. Expect to change. Being prepared in college is ... back home. Your roots will continue to influence your life in college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

   The New York Times article “Why College Rankings Are a Joke,” MIT is ranked second on the list of best colleges for veterans. However, the Institute ... college funding makes! MIT’s program coordinators would never have to worry

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... learned in college. After that, in twenty years, it’ll be hard to explain to ... ") For a college student, supermarkets are like Toys R Us to 7 year olds

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  makes college hard...if it were just school, I could handle it, but there ... rigorous and exciting challenge of our whole life thus far. College students (all college students) are high capacity individuals, pushed to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  college experience not defined in bulk by beer pongs and drunk friends, I ... 's integrated so well into my ongoing college experience that heading to ADPhi for ... my college experience, and I understood that it was completely false. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013