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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  Harvard, I’m learning to approach philosophy texts with high rigor and ... come to terms with the fact that I have, in fact, left high school ... community looks like from the outside. I spent most of my high school days in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  end.  Instead, I'm essentially directing the presentation ... ;So instead, I have Eric (our SolidWorks professional) generate high-DPI images ... ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... missing high school an inordinate amount lately. I come from a very small

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  a conclusion became. In the end, I decided to list all my favorite ... the show and pick from that list. I ended up with the thirteen episodes ... Zuko and Azula was sad and tragically beautiful. In the end, I picked

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  doing something.  I worked out for the first time since our season ended ... ended. I will no doubt be tearing it up on the pickup fields at MIT and ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  intelligence. Example of a mental rotation test. I’m guessing that you ... females are more verbally proficient. A man being tested for spatial ability ... ?). If you’re now wondering whether I’m about to throw some kind of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  feel low on self-confidence. I'm glad that I learned by the end of Year 1 ... that involved comparing SAT scores, high school grades, or AP scores. I ... time riding an OMG I GOT INTO MIT THAT MUST MEAN I'M THE BEST EVER high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  interesting than they were in high school. I was younger than everyone around me ... friends I did have were friends from high school or my mom’s students. I don ... people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  lost my high Taiwanese standards for bubble tea =p) I hope to be making ... 's a tourist place anyway. =p 77. Work out at the Z-Center - I only swim ... too many bad experiences with Python in high school, so I ran as far

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have given it a second (or first) thought, except for a conversation I had with

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  coming to an end, and then I’m out the door, in the sun, walking across ... . I don’t think they’ve ever been so colorful – I remember white tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... , well, I think this message from the hackers says it best: We recognize

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  and political issues. I came from a high school debate team where we ... Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT, ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  Tech Shuttle. Man, I need to fix my bike. 9:02 AM. I arrive at work. I ... 7:45 AM. The alarm goes off and I hit the snooze bar. My first class this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  .org (although that is highly recommended!) here’s a quick recap: I studied Course ... time thinking, “Man I really hope no one realizes that I have no idea ... startup, your job title is irrelevant. (For this and other reasons, I highly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing crossword puzzles, seeing high school friends, and missing MIT. I had intended ... sometimes like i am made of you guys” 2014 “My first semester ended two weeks

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  "]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I ... how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , towards the end of the first trimester of high school senior year, I was ... that I would end up where I wanted and needed to be, and that she would walk to the ends of the Earth to secure my happiness. I believed her

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket ... entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  bang. i sang my last concert with the wellesley-mit toons. classes ended ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015, so i'm doing things a little out of order. instead of walking last

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018