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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  -to-know-you questions ended with college apps? Nope! “Tell us about who you are, your ... are" question, whether in college apps or desktop backgrounds or Discord ... another college application, Allison. They just want a way for you to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  college. It was easy to feel more “ahead” in middle school simply because I ... grew older. Once the initial euphoria of getting into college wore off ... happen in college. At the same time, though, I have to keep reminding

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  before leaving for college, and some of my art-related hobbies slipped to ... wouldn't bring them with me to college, but I started painting again this ... incredibly optimistic. To be clear, I'm still ~very scared~ of college, classes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  last time I wrote for a significant period of time was for college ... into different states and colleges. I traveled to West Virginia for a ... college :) [carousel image1="95929" image2="95925" /] Some other things I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  hadn’t truly lived until I came to college.   doing stuff So what ... lunchtime, and a goal to work towards (college), but I didn’t feel like I was ... at their expense.[/caption] I was froshy, because college made me feel

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  , what we all missed in this past year: college, dating, travel, work ... ended up going to the same college, including Kenneth. So inevitably we ... friend from college. It was like one big mishmash of people each from a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  students or students at other colleges). This application is open to all MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and ... next 24 hours doing mostly nothing. "In college, everything has an end ... has an end. The semester has an end. College has an end. Work isn't like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  back from russia and since getting to college and meeting so many new ... no plans i'm so lost p: same, college really changed me _____ m: i ... going to college right now is more than enough pursuit of knowledge, and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in ... worth pursuing' has been really difficult. i feel like the college

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• 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