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• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  some of the nation's most successful magnet schools -- but I am glad that ... of Iowa charges American schools with impeding the development of the ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... take while I could; I could always go to art school later, right ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two ... of a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu Start early  This time around I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  , my buyers withdrew their offer.  All of a sudden I had a house to sell ... this!" she said. She was wrong, of course.  I could definitely not ... wanting one. I took a job 1.5 hours north of where I lived not long before

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings above), and the walls are covered with an eclectic mishmash of posters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  though, because of how fast paced things go and how busy everyone is. Once ... common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  ’m not proud of. To be honest, my solution in high school was just… not to ... lost many of those hobbies when I started middle school. In theory I ... about culture, comparing our customs of respect, discussing middle school

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I ... extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a ... awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a ... It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living ... parents are sketched out by how hardcoar East Campus is :P). But any of us ... questions about East Campus or MIT in general! Some of you have probably

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  too), and he (apparently) wrote an absolutely stunning letter of recommendation for my graduate school applications. In the first project I worked ... of them, I couldn't very well design my own experiments. Although I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  ----------------------------- 1. The first day of high school, I rode a unicycle to school. 2. I can ... in my two truths and a lie was: 1. The first day of high school, I rode a unicycle to school. Haha, I can barely ride my bike without fear of

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a ... New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... asks, "My higher education advisor told me that my school can submit some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to high school-age students who have done significant work of their own ... From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was two cans of red spray paint and one can of black (from Bad Ideas Weekend

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  , “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than ... the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... simple task or calculation could take two hours, most of those spent trying

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014