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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  . Example – If it’s the first day of my first year of college classes, I will ... miss out on breakfast but be late to my first college class. Counter

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  vanished to college, taking on new spheres of life. I grew to resent staying ... was readier for college than I might have been upon graduation months

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members ... can add a different dimension to the college experience that I knew

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  , and then moved to sunny Boca Raton, Florida until college. Much like ... colleges, even up until my Junior spring. It wasn’t until senior fall that I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  multiple disciplines.  I talked about consilience on my college applications ... years ago, 34-38 skeletons were found in the grounds of St. John's College

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  : college is better than high school. Not that high school is bad--and here I ... . College, it turns out, is a very social experience. I guess people expect

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  ways, this is entirely true. You come to college and you’ve been ... groups before college. But anyways, he did get in and now, not only is he

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and ... again?" I asked constantly. My college friends offered to be running

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  through most of college through a weird chain of events that started with a college riot neither of us attended, or the fact that, one day as I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... . You actually have a lot more freedom than most other college students

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are still in college, or, blinded by the bright lights of the Beyond, have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  moved to State College, Pennsylvania, a small city surrounding Penn State ... better idea financially to leave high school and go to college full time as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  up in Taiwan, didn't come back until college....our parents even know ... colleges, I can't help but feel that there are just so many things that I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  for high school students to take college-level classes taught by volunteer college students. Last Wednesday was the first day, and Junction had

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  travelled to lower Manhattan to meet with a College Admission Manager (and ... and went to visit friends at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. I met

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  process behind selecting a freshman class. Getting into college isn't just ... know senior year, laden down and unduly burdened by the college

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  tag). Never, in a dozen years of pre-college schooling, was the sin of ... corner from MIT, swankily cuddled in a block of the usual college

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  exhaustion. Not that I'd ever do it again. II. Breakfast as Therapy College ... the food consumed in college does not come packaged with social

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next month. You all need to decide where you’re going to college next year ... deep that introductory college textbooks were far too broad for my

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high ... totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009