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• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  (!!)[/caption] Communities are great. There are lots of fabulous resources that the community ... is the community, they mean it. [caption id="attachment_62934" align ... into your first fight, a six-eyed space whale named Neow offers you a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  -established tradition and main claim to fame around the MIT community. I can't wait to ... and couldn’t ask for a better community to live with.  [caption id ... for each other; there’s always someone to offer me helpful insight and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... on entering college. So click away! If you’re like me, then in the weeks preceding college you’re frantically reading everything ever on the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college ... college essay is yours. For more, see this writing advice from Chuck ... passions. Highlight quirks. You can’t fit everything into a college essay, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College ... College, and then home safe by the gentle hour of 6:30AM. All this, dear ... college stories to cat applications, or some amalgamation of those, and she

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  ! Fast-forward four months. Not only did she apply to the College of ... exponentially throughout the college application process. The young lady that I ... 's family... but in many ways every student of color that I admit to college

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  that clear."]I miss college application season.[/annotation] I miss the research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social ... interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored ... know a lot of college students, especially at mit, who have carefully

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community ... being told that education was for me, that college was for me, that I was ... college at all, have equally rich inner lives. And so I don't know what to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  many, many, many more. My life as a college student has pretty much been ... well beyond trying to get into college.   In my first couple of ... conversation, be a good person and live with good values. My blogging community

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  ), but it was nevertheless a reminder that I'm a college student now. I ... activity in college, but every semester hundreds of students take advantage ... Boston community. I hope to continue teaching in events like Spark

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  ’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall ... about college. Denver is soft. Denver, on a Tuesday, heals me. Denver

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  actually moved here. Throughout all of high school, the idea of college as a ... 's such a wonderful community. What really drew me was the culture of music ... one piece of wisdom I've gleaned, it would be that college is nothing

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  , the nature of college renders that last statement faulty in one regard ... when I was 8 years old at my local community park, the majority of my ... season, we played a match at Vassar College in New York and spent the four

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• 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 ... community - a job, a school, a club, a town - where you feel a deep, profound

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

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

  

  Valor, a nonprofit community outreach and head start program, and I ... 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 / 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 ... , dancers, screenwriters, community service activists, student advocates ... know senior year, laden down and unduly burdened by the college

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US ... , when they offer me tomato salad at dinner, they have no idea that I

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... someone with a polaroid camera. They called out, offering to take a free

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... an anecdote from my college-application era, which now feels like half

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022