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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... us to know what is GMO and what is not. He added that many college ... college would be pretty boring if people weren't really pushed academically

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  . For most students, college will be their first experience largely ... stereotypical broke-college-student way. Curious to find how others think of ... pain of college prices. More thoughts: "i have a spending tracking

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  ’s right. Field trips. In 2025. In College. Yep.  [caption id ... . Now I think I value a lot less what I accomplish while in college and more the person that I become while in college. I was so obsessed with

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome myself, which is something I didn’t know in college ... from college, this is something that has become an integral part of my ... would have been helpful, in college, to have known that I was autistic

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure ... ✨first college spring break✨. Like many MIT students, I decided to travel ... Quarter of the city are much too expensive, and we're college students

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  the morning, I was applying to college. I lived in New York, I spent ... person hunched over a coffee and her college essays. Almost like I have ... year, but not exactly; with the fact that my entire college experience

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  real reason - college Jeopardy auditions. College Jeopardy requires a ... things that I prided myself in the most before coming to college. Maybe it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  do a single sport until college, where I started fencing in freshman year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most ... college, but it's honestly hard to see that progress sometimes, as I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is ... time to be concerned about building your college admissions resume, or ... affect your college application. Your specific activities were never what

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  writing about a myriad of other things. I posted to College Confidential ... things until I got to college. Although you may not yet know what you ... 't regret it. If you're applying to college this year, my best advice is to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  college. ;) My amazing friends Yida and Sarah agreed to help me move my ... college students flooding into Boston right now), so I reserved a 10-foot ... college. Put the stuff that you do have in smaller boxes. From someone who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don ... . It’s why we have no honors college or even honors classes, no grade de ... competitive with other colleges, but never within itself. Difficulties and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  ? Do they even want to go to college, anymore?   Because these ... i thought were really important about college (technical rigor ... ?” And college is the next step to answering that question and pursuing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself facing more questions about identity in general in college. This year, I ... do are all important.   Finding Meaning As I said, in college, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  I do in this area for a summer job?” Experimenting in College Stuff I've experimented with in college: Mathematics, Theoretical (Course 18-3): brief ... . Conclusion: college has been fun, but I still have no idea what I will do in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have ... ’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... the book that I have re-read every summer of college, from 2014 til now

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  about college essays. It's interesting how life changes. A year ago, college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  After attending many entrepreneurship networking events as a college ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don ... Bridge application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received ... of the National College Match. If you are not matched with any school

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  atmosphere. Her first job out of college was programming for Jim Elliot at MIT ... . She studied astrophysics at Wellesley College and then went on to ... physics and math major from Sienna College. She appears in the New Horizons

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015