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  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn ... was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  limits here. For example Massachusetts has some pretty lame rules about ... engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... for things he's made at MITERS. For example, lolriokart:  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... . Adam designed the airplanes in Solidworks, optimizing for easy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... is typically not what we are going for when selecting students for our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  than we'd like. But when you find that true fit, that perfect place for ... what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... for other reasons—my host was already known as "the funny one" among

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad ... it, here’s my probably-more-comprehensive-than-you-were-looking-for ... again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  taught me how to stand up for myself, hold others accountable, and take responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and made my shoulder available for others to cry on. My friends have pulled

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... people left on campus were those who had exception housing, for one reason ... except for the seniors. The semester itself was difficult, but the normalcy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied ... : "Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  LOVE to take but won't have room for. Entire departments I won't ever ... I knew that my dorm was supposed to be my home-away-from-home for four ... with your college family. This should have been as high a priority for me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  was also one of the toughest for me to master, when I did improv at ... , I'm also deeply sarcastic; it's naturally easier for me to play the ... orientation for the class of 2015, in late August. You can see why these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my MIT career, I dropped a course. There were a variety of reasons for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  older brothers or sisters, with whom I am competing for a space in an ... that out of the way, I'm writing this entry for a few reasons. One ... something like a "stay tuned for my next blog entry, after graduation!" which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  'm constantly asking my fellow admissions officers and student tour guides for ... predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  leave the Boston area for graduate school. I think that those two questions have the same answer. When I arrived as a freshman, I signed up for ... sinking. Actually, that’s how I felt for my first three and a half years at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... ? The application volume is such that there is more capacity for students ... consistency, so that similar decisions are made for similar applicants from the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the ... opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009