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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  changes between high school and college is just the amount of freedom you ... too early……… (there is no curfew in college :P),” you can be anywhere at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  piano and sax for his “college fund”; it is both a sad reminder of college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  college Having weird relationships with family as they change and grow while you’re in college--remarriages, divorces, new births. Anxiety

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  actually are still things you can do to most effectively prepare for college ... had moments where I got so caught up in college and the future that I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  College Experience: orienting yourself around career/classes/future or ... college student, especially at seventeen. Every choice is a sacrifice. At

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• 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 / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to journal about daily experiences. Much angst about my workplace and college ... . I do not represent the views of every college student. I love random

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 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 ... 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 ... season, we played a match at Vassar College in New York and spent the four

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  vanished to college, taking on new spheres of life. I grew to resent staying ... was readier for college than I might have been upon graduation months

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members ... can add a different dimension to the college experience that I knew

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  , and then moved to sunny Boca Raton, Florida until college. Much like ... colleges, even up until my Junior spring. It wasn’t until senior fall that I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  multiple disciplines.  I talked about consilience on my college applications ... years ago, 34-38 skeletons were found in the grounds of St. John's College

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  : college is better than high school. Not that high school is bad--and here I ... . College, it turns out, is a very social experience. I guess people expect

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  ways, this is entirely true. You come to college and you’ve been ... groups before college. But anyways, he did get in and now, not only is he

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  through most of college through a weird chain of events that started with a college riot neither of us attended, or the fact that, one day as I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• 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

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

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

  

  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 / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  up in Taiwan, didn't come back until college....our parents even know ... colleges, I can't help but feel that there are just so many things that I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  travelled to lower Manhattan to meet with a College Admission Manager (and ... and went to visit friends at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. I met

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011