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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as ... that I was truly headed to college. Panic. Decide that the best way ... after leaving for college? Even an overly generous estimate of seeing my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  everyone. around this time last year, when college decisions were all coming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  about the competition, or college apps, or whatever. I asked how they were ... are typically people who know they’ll help HMMT when they get to college ... we were up to now, and about college. He asks me if I still keep up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  College App Due Dates Are Creeping Up Season Fall!

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  or students at other colleges). If this sounds like something you might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... , we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life ... ="Our parents, not having grown up in the US nor gone to college, don’t fully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT, because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro/con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  you worry about college applications. As Stu once wrote, "we want young

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  students or students at other colleges). Your application will be read by a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  Imperial College, London — in Italy for 5 days. We adventured around Rome and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  , let’s say College N. At CPW, I struggled to decide which of the many ... College N, my day started with a powerpoint presentation from the finance ... College N, my host had two other prefrosh besides me. At MIT, there’s an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! If you ... : Submit them to the College Board’s IDOC service. Please see full Quest ... MIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received your application. It will take

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  college applications whose deadlines fell on January 1. Not much has changed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by ... my "college friends," and if/when I get married they will likely be at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  with your last few weeks? maybe check out selam's 'how to college

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  If you read my last post, I've had a pretty hard October. However, the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike sharing similar stories helped me realize how we're all struggling. But more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  and radio shows, and used to run one for my college newspaper, so it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  . heartbreakingly honest, sometimes immature, sometimes so college. and always so

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014