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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  part of college may be kindred spirits. I'm also thankful for right here

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  instead of people. In any case, pursuing hands-on experiences in college

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  third essay prompt on a college app. And it'll probably happen more than

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I sketched up this guide on one of my flights after 4 hours of intense analysis. Or maybe 20 minutes of doodling on napkins, you can decide.  

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  college football, lines from movies, knowledge of sub-saharan wildlife, etc

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  between spending winter break completing the 14 college applications you

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Arizona desert, where I spent the remainder of my pre-college days in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  trying to figure out where to enroll for college, it's pretty important for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  just chalked up my high school record (and my college choice) to natural

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  stressful application essays, if you're a college student in general, even if

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  starting to feel the weight of college applications on their shoulders.] In

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  , stressed and potentially freaking out about how this long, arduous college

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  inspire young Latinos to go to college and create telepathic biorockets just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  your college essays. I just finished working with the MITES and E2 kids

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  . –Baker: Largely athletic and "social". Lots of "normal" college kids

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  college art school friends would scoff “Oh cut it out, you are so NOT queer

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  go to other colleges or are friends of MIT members. Most of them are

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  . When Olin College of Engineering asked me if I wanted to attend their

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  dramatically after college, junior year became the "just do it" era. This motto

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011