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• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  only do so much as a high school senior and almost-college freshman. But ... believed that getting into a dream college was a binary decision. I believed that on some gloomy judgment day after college applications were in, all

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  everyone was posting about first coming/coming back to college, and all the ... home, and more about the fact that college is much closer to “the real ... that in going to college, I had officially left something of myself

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Bridge College Admissions Conferences that are hosted annually by QuestBridge - a ... Questbridge College Admissions Conference at Yale. The idea in a nutshell is to ... ) before the college fair [Ed. note: Louis was a question

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  college dorm. What makes you so proud? Way to be a total killjoy. *eyeroll* Obviously a college dorm room is not ideal to demonstrate interior design skills. What exactly would a future interior decorator's college dorm room

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore ... . The six weeks I spent on bedrest before heading off to college forced me ... appreciation for the people and experiences in my life. To my to-be college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that ... thoughts about making friends at college. Don't It was sometime in the middle ... , I need familiarity. At that moment, the novelty of college and MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  Class of 2010: I hope you’re all excited about your new temporary housing assignment! I *believe* every room comes with the following items, though it may vary slightly depending on…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  voices, and college admission letters. The difference was that they were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  degree temps they regularly weather. But the baby penguins were cute little ... spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has ... Students are non-degree students who take classes at MIT. You will apply
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... dropped 30 degrees. T--h--i--r--t--y d--e--g--r--e--e--s. Up until this

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... essentially everything in that whole "I just need this fucking degree but dear ... support those going through troubling times. During my time at college, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... from the academic life of college. Once during freshman year, I was tired ... being a wide-eyed froshling (freshman) at MIT (or any other college), the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ’t learn college-level differential equations or quantum mechanics in high ... this year. Course 6n’t For better or worse, my own MIT degree audit is ... ’t think this degree of flexibility is necessarily bad, even if it can lead

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore ... organizations do nothing except act as vessels to sell [college] student resumes ... writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  undergrad degree from MIT. Being rejected made me feel like those dreams would ... think) a better, more thoughtful person. At some point in college, I ... 've had were not straight lines from my college decision onward, but rather

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... an architecture discovery class. In general, I want to use college to ... , because ~college is a time to explore~ and the closer I get to my future the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  feelings before/throughout/after college and always, so they're kind of ... survive college. It was harder than I expected to rip myself away from that ... degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016