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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  college. But, I’ve found it much more difficult to limit the number of ... it is true to a certain degree. Life is full of opportunity costs ... years of college, I would go to these buffets (true story! Ask anyone who

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... institutions, while also answering questions you may have about the college ... told they are only admitted to colleges because of their race, gender, or

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very ... a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  . What if the people who choose to go to college might have been better at ... higher wages even if they didn’t go to college? If this is the case, we ... ways beyond having a diploma or not. We don’t have a good “control” group

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you ... faded into the background of my college experience. A Monday night when my ... myself to achieve over the course of college, and if you've been keeping up

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  . I decided that, moving forward into college, I didn't want to choose ... intersection.[/annotation] As my summer in the lab ended, the college ... computational neuroscience degree program for undergraduates. However, its regular

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  noticed that the beginnings of college math felt a lot like high school math ... that I don't want a job that comes out of a poli-sci degree, but instead ... just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... —about what college would be like. Picnics on a sunny quad, aesthetic library ... ’ve been here for two years. At real college, not imaginary internet college

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  to say, I’d like to write more now that I’m transitioning from college ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for ... high school was for college things I found surprising other thoughts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  's going on? At CollegeWeek Live! you all can participate in a real-time, 2 day college fair. Actual living, breathing college representatives are

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  the green grass was fake and only yellow grass was real grass ... an institution called a college. If a student is planning on pursuing ... final exam administered by an outside exam board. Here, “college” and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... undergrad degree last year in Course 6: Electrical Engineering and Computer ... a Master of Engineering degree in addition to their Bachelor of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college ... much of junior and senior year, and leading into college"]I did in high ... scholarships to pay for college. Furthermore, I really liked the topic of my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging ... 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

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  what it means for a day to feel like it’s NINETY DEGREES (ah yes ... 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

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

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... get good schooling. I will go to college for six years, get my Master's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  academic buildings - are all markers of a traditional college residential area, and a traditional college experience. The geographical locations ... of any of these dorms does not remotely resemble a traditional college

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

  personal and interpersonal skills. Students will get an SB degree from the
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT Bulletin (course and degree catalog). You'll find descriptions of MIT
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  the community college I'm attending for the next two years in place of ... I wasn't prepared for. The counselors at the college assure me that by the end of this year I will have had all the pre-college math I need

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013