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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  ’s support of the international and immigrant members of their community. Two ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B. A. from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey Extracurricular: Civil

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... computer science degree for that prestige level. I hate how I still bend to ... integrate into my Bachelor's degree. This is where management, graphic design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  poor college students. Well, most of us are, I think. But allow yourself ... scans on Youtube and community wellness's website, but this is my short ... that MIT has to offer for those who are struggling with anxiety. MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  into our Athena locker. Many communities in MIT have an Athena locker ... we sometimes write on the blogs, we write all MIT degrees when ... effect.']master's degree[/annotation] in urban planning. Now, he works for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  . Two. When I first started out with college decisions, I had the belief ... first, choosing where I would go to college was simply a matter of getting to know each college and choosing which one I thought I would fit in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  opportunities or basically show professors that I have something to offer... when in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... academics, and the college experience is not *just* the classes - it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... communities around you full of people ready to support you, and you will have ... more fundamental than those other blog posts. In short: In college, you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  , college. People asked me, I wondered, why am I working so hard if there’s no ... to college [because of your undocumented status]. Some teachers didn ... through.” And DACA does not offer protection to everyone. He echoed Sofia

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with ... tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... out of the prompts for the 15 colleges that I applied to (number one was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept ... to create and then create. Like my clubs, a community of people I share

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  of other college students. I also valued the chance to try living off ... know an FSILG community through casual day-to-day events, as opposed to ... dream. Every day made me feel like I was at a college-student summer camp

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These ... others better, I grew really excited about the ASA community. At ASA ... were made me proud of all our communities and the future of them. (I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  occasionally, disgustingly burped. Regrettably, we were unable to offer the Milk ... . Fortunately, the Milk remains a bubbly member of the Random Hall community, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  that. There was a sense of joy because the MIT community had really come ... the impact COVID-19 is having on communities is unimaginable, but I ... ’ve received so many emails offering support and help. It’s just a really good

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ+ Community at MIT, I asked current and former bloggers if they would be willing ... people within the LGBTQ community who would likely not consider me truly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  myself to the MIT community? Self-deprecatingly, that's how.  Before I ... organizational skills during college.  That might have been okay in 2007.  In 2009 ... steered me through college as if it were leading me somewhere, rather than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals ... year has been connecting with other colleges in Boston and their Cru ... students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  I wanted to do earlier in college? What if I had taken those harder ... academic offerings at MIT. But the two seniors in our group both said they’d spend more time with the people around them, taking in the community and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  , academics still trump clubs, since in theory you’re in college primarily to ... perspectives of undergrads and grads as well as non MIT college experiences ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015