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• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... essentially everything in that whole "I just need this fucking degree but dear ... support those going through troubling times. During my time at college, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... from the academic life of college. Once during freshman year, I was tired ... being a wide-eyed froshling (freshman) at MIT (or any other college), the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  . For most students, college will be their first experience largely ... stereotypical broke-college-student way. Curious to find how others think of ... pay upfront for dining when they pay tuition. The two meal plans offered

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  do a single sport until college, where I started fencing in freshman year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most ... college, but it's honestly hard to see that progress sometimes, as I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  the boxes for them. MIT dorms also offer a storage plan that covers up ... college. ;) My amazing friends Yida and Sarah agreed to help me move my ... college students flooding into Boston right now), so I reserved a 10-foot

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don ... . It’s why we have no honors college or even honors classes, no grade de

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  've got to offer. So what does FIRST have to do with this Kelly Clarkson ... continued to mentor the team throughout college. Now, I am, to the best of my ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Cheney," "The Al Franken") and Boston area colleges ("The Crimson," "The ... while at MIT, the school offers us the opportunity to be as happy as ... like the traditional standard college essay I'd always heard about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... invigorating energy of new college students captivate even the most hardened ... , conveniently being offered the very week you're struggling. You really thought

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  schools offer biology or BME (biomedical engineering), but there are very few Universities that will offer a biological engineering degree. I have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  in their seminars) and are open only to freshmen. The seminars offered ... preprofessional advisor through the MIT Careers Office; this advisor offers guidance ... 's supervisor asked him to work on a project for his Aero/Astro master's degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  amazing cook offers you this deal, take it.) My stomach was very happy that ... considering going back to the NIH, and I had an offer at Genentech, but I really ... the podium and undergrads on the other, and alternate awarding degrees

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore ... organizations do nothing except act as vessels to sell [college] student resumes ... writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... an architecture discovery class. In general, I want to use college to ... , because ~college is a time to explore~ and the closer I get to my future the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  feelings before/throughout/after college and always, so they're kind of ... survive college. It was harder than I expected to rip myself away from that ... degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... Harvard PHIL 179 lecture. Luckily, it’s a lot of fun, a “college classic” of ... MIT bubble. We’re in college but not part of it. Harvard makes us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  , and I just graduated from MIT in June with degrees in brain and ... college as when I left), and for three two-hour chunks of time every week ... opportunity-laden time as college. If you're going to take the easy road now

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  to be to succeed in any college, let alone an elite one), but I need ... grand scale like the rumors you hear about cutthroat colleges. I think ... 's degrees in pure sciences aren't very useful? Does that hold true with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  return as a JC a few months later. And when my offer popped up in my inbox ... College, in Portland, Oregon. It was superlatively green and fairly hilly ... offer a view of Mt. Hood. I was excited to go to Portland for a totally

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  go abroad for college. Many wanted to come back in order to help ... stories to share. One of the other college counselors was Robert, an ... work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025