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• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  College students have to be productive. In trying to manage all my schoolwork, clubs, fraternity, and side projects, I'm constantly searching for ... you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  business at home to raise money for college. Choosing a laptop for college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  on more college admissions decisions (and/or maybe happen to like ... senior. Applying to college! Well, she’s waiting to hear back from colleges ... sure about it. But she is actually growing up in a college town, fair

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader ... .I.-assisted writing. CMS/W is where I did my grad degree, and also occasionally teach ... critical thought to constitute almost all of a typical college essay. Our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  science classes during her college years. She was a math major. Engineering ... stand at roughly 70 degrees. I’d drawn up the designs earlier that week ... building things with wood,” I said, sounding very much like a college kid

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  the annual conference of the New England Association for College ... on Admissions," presented by Amherst College Dean of Admissions Tom Parker and Milton Academy Director of College Counseling Rod Skinner. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  when reviewing my app? When scores are sent from the college board to MIT ... of the students pretty much go to state schools if they go to college ... , "In Romania when one applies for college one knows the lowest grade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  How do I apply as a veteran?

  completed any college-level coursework, you may apply for first-year admission ... accredited college, university, technical institute, or community college you
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  least pass everything, and as we learned a few weeks ago, D is for Diploma

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  formal swaps. We had our first CME study break at Downing College. Lots of ... of us visited Girton College, which (I think) is the farthest college ... amazingly nice college that has grass that you can actually walk on! And then

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  college education, here are a few questions: 1. What are the skills you hope to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often ... experience made her re-evaluate many of her assumptions about college ... : Getting into college taxes teens, parents The American Academy of Pediatrics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year ... applying to college, I sometimes felt like I didn’t have people to turn to ... STARS@MIT and the STARS Ambassadors—current college students from small

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  your high school maybe at a local college. Also, you may want to talk a ... /or ask your college counselor to note it in his/her recommendation to us. I ... college/MIT? Nicole wrote, "What is the admissions process? That's kind of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  ? Ever wondered what it was like for a random college student on the ... ="121830" /] Now across the bridge, I made my way up the basically 90 degree angle

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  the only institution in the country to offer an undergraduate degree ... philosophy classes at community college through dual enrollment, I read a lot

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  This post is written by the wonderful Elisa X. '26 / MEng '26! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  prefrosh who were being led to believe that Boston was always 70 degrees and ... for some of the ones I attended at college too. Which makes sense, I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  ="academic planner for MIT students to plan out their degrees, test out paths for ... learned in college that my interests have shifted, but I still have a deep

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  started college, 17 and still their innocent, perhaps helpless, teenaged ... beating tissue. But for now, I’m still here. I can’t finish my degree

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025