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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  -generation college student, yay! But I feel like many of my friends have doctors ... 's degree, and others seem to consider MIT the best (#1) Planning school in ... (you'll see what I mean once you get to college).   I am just

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  college. But, I’ve found it much more difficult to limit the number of ... it is true to a certain degree. Life is full of opportunity costs ... years of college, I would go to these buffets (true story! Ask anyone who

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  : Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions,” which talks about ways the college admissions process might “promote ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... institutions, while also answering questions you may have about the college ... told they are only admitted to colleges because of their race, gender, or

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  ] Today, Course 20 offers degrees in Biological Engineering only. [caption ... 1945, MIT launched Course 20, a new department offering a Bachelor’s of ... -related matters are offered at MIT, the Institute’s extensive contributions to food

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  where you’ll be attending college. In reality, that is such a small part ... college apps. Mentally, I had long since left high school behind and my ... college. I focused on my academics and used my free time productively

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you ... faded into the background of my college experience. A Monday night when my ... myself to achieve over the course of college, and if you've been keeping up

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid ... Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM) Honors Summer Math ... summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  school award for a piece I wrote. Then came time for college. Adults ... undergraduate students who choose to major in writing (MIT offers creative writing ... an undergrad degree, doing something technical and high paying in a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered ... minor in the same field."]minor[/annotation] but does offer more coherence ... new College of Computing, which coordinates computing education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... : about jobs, about your ability to pay for college, and more generally ... realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... Simmons offer made-to-order stirfry, so you can "have it your way" without ... . (What more do college students want?) I'm a big fan of Alpine Bagel in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  's going on? At CollegeWeek Live! you all can participate in a real-time, 2 day college fair. Actual living, breathing college representatives are

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT ... student-athletes interested in MIT or in playing college soccer in general

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... Ben's entry, I read the thread. I did not know about College Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for ... ’s offered in both semesters (albeit with two different professors) so I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations ... /PhD degrees. I really love research but I also have great passion in medicine ... /PhD degree, I do not know whether I’ll do more research or more clinical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i hate orthogonality making my furniture diagonal

  

  diagonally by fifteen degrees: and there the furniture would remain, all the ... corner still offered limitless possibilities. would i use it for storage ... bag — albeit at a 45-degree angle from the walls, stretching the entire

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • August 19, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... —about what college would be like. Picnics on a sunny quad, aesthetic library ... ’ve been here for two years. At real college, not imaginary internet college

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  . I decided that, moving forward into college, I didn't want to choose ... intersection.[/annotation] As my summer in the lab ended, the college ... computational neuroscience degree program for undergraduates. However, its regular

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020