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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I hadn’t been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of crackers one night, it…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When she got back, she…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  ’d already chosen for college. Then MIT destroyed those misconceptions, for ... discovered so much from my friends. College changes things, but the biggest ... school, but visiting from college, I was enchanted by it. I wanted the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on ... the resources to find out for themselves! When I think back to pre-college ... . And then I went to college and learned that research is where the skills

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  is very interesting to see the American (and MIT) college social life ... made friends that will last through college. All without the help of so ... alcohol poisoning weeks after arriving at college. Schools in America have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  business at home to raise money for college. Choosing a laptop for college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  about throughout college and high school, but things which that have ... figured out before college (or in college) — let me be evidence that you ... colleges, or what life will be like after high school and college. Maybe this

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  science classes during her college years. She was a math major. Engineering ... stand at roughly 70 degrees. I’d drawn up the designs earlier that week ... building things with wood,” I said, sounding very much like a college kid

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to ... despair, of giving up in just about every facet of life. College has been a ... became even more confused in college; for example, I became much less

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... . "But she was very happy. She didn't go to college and she sacrificed ... drive to be accepted at a good college or university made him too hard on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  coursework done at community colleges can be found here. I got lazy at the end ... trying to do something important with a deadline, like apply to college ... was the first I did for my college applications, and there were a few

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer ... offer) or decline it. We will be maintaining the waitlist for another few

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  Study Abroad programs from England to Australia offer students. Add to ... ever-important ventures into all the diversity the world has to offer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but ... — the mitlwax community is truly unlike any other I have been a part of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  ’ve scoured the musical world during college, taking world music and film music ... improvement, and because of this they’re one of the communities at mit that i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  arts college fashion! I dressed well for my first day of Harvard classes ... to MIT — I love our culture and communities, our makerspaces and fancy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think ... was a great Friday night. I love going to college in Cambridge because

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  communities that i respect, like the group houses i lived in or the relevant ... college supposedly with people they love, i can’t help but be skeptical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  as a student and/or community member." At MIT, we do have strong ... (and some other colleges) may have policies and procedures that set this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  community. Also Petey would never fire a blogger. I think."]I periodically ... and friends that come with being at MIT, and the future of the college

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020