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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  Well, are you rural? You might have heard about the STARS College ... common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT ... stopped behind a cattle drive, or where your high school’s idea of a college

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... of colleges, had I decided to attend those instead. Here's a secret ... else. Truthfully, I started college when I was young and impressionable

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  bloggers past about the very specific feeling that is awaiting your college ... ’ll do awesome things. i wish i’d known earlier that good colleges aren ... distract and enliven you, the students here have offered some serious and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  doesn’t offer me a bite. 99.999% of the time I don’t actually want the ... this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope ... it has without a doubt been one of the most rewarding parts of college

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  ’s block parties. I miss my backyard. I miss fanatic college football fans. I ... lot of you are probably in the thick of college applications right now ... finish, but don't get too embedded in your bubble universe [of college apps

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston ... Science will host a “Clubhouse-to-College and Career” Fair August 6, where the youth will explore career options, interact with local college

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college, particularly at the only college about which I know anything substantial. The ... people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  's exactly what you hope to do when choosing where to attend college. The same ... are the same ones you should seek out when deciding which college communities to join. Remember, you are not attending a college simply to study

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  of the AP classes the school offered by my junior year. With few options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my family to go to college, and being from a town that sent few of its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  a precursor to college, when my real life would begin. I couldn't tell ... 's what this post is about."]wait it out[/annotation] until I got to college. Plus, I was so focused on actually getting in to college that I didn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  would probably be a bad idea, so instead we just decided to be "college ... sister before she headed back to college in Baltimore. I value family ... people behind us were from State College, and they were trying to get here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  never touch dining hall food. You'll be in college. You'll get food ... requirements for a degree in that major, as if you're getting a degree in just

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... kidding, but going to college away from home requires more skills than just ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... check to take advantage of any of the opportunities offered to the fullest ... admission to the academic enterprise and then offering those who clear the bar

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  companies were offering was also similar. but also like college decisions, the ... process of internship app season feels like a rehash of college admissions ... absolutely no idea what college would be like. the whole concept of getting to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... dorm is renovated. The class, now labelled STS.051, will be offered this ... school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  twice (once to a law school, whose offer I declined, and once to CMS/W at MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of ... to MIT, you will almost certainly be able to study at a college that is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... -- embrace the diversity they have to offer. Learn how to forgive people, too ... during your four years in college, so on to make the most of it

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend ... who has shopped for Consumer Electronics on Amazon and offers me deals ... then, but I can't take advantage of any of their offers now because they

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  about college again. I began my meeting that evening with a moment of ... ) leaves off, offering students the opportunity to do some real, high ... the USACO community, which also offers a bulletin/discussion board and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006