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• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  high school and you're still shy about pictures of yourself. Spend half ... group of other people and wait. You chat with the high school kid in front ... STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  , really, but back in middle school, I used to read a lot of popular science ... time. As a result, though, I feel an obligation of sorts to my middle-school ... of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  . Schools understand that this scenario is a part of the process, and it is ... the middle of May, after we've received and processed the responses from ... overenrollment of previous years) and thus it is more likely that this year will

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  I’m out of class, which means I’m naturally thinking about only one thing—what classes I’m going to take next! This is not because of a deep internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl   With her nails painted black and the whole of the world Turning

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always dreamt of growing out the afro, I never had the opportunity until I moved

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real ... visited my old high school and was the "guest speaker" in the AP Physics C

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  High School Auditorium, 2200 E. Dorothy Lane, Fullerton, CA 92831Los ... : Saturday, October 1, 2:00pm; High Tech High School Auditorium, 2861 Womble Rd ... handful of questions I'm almost always asked. So, what I'm going to do is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice ... of rugged beauty, where Carhartts are more a necessity than a fashion statement, and the sharp crack of ice breaking in the horse trough signals the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... for myself because schools in the UK apparently often don't have dining ... about how much i miss MIT. i spent junior fall in a very weird state of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  not a byte, more of a museum nerd than your typical MIT student, which ... 's current exhibit of Tavares Strachan's show, Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  live, was thinking of having a "high school dance" party, where we'd all ... choice that I would be devoting much of my time to school and labwork, and ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  of coming into a tough school and finding your place, and that's why we ... morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust" -- graduates of years past that still hang around the hall -- which reveal all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In the last three, almost four years, I ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  participating in extracurricular activities. Years of attending a school that ... rise up and out of the toxic shadow of her school and friend drama. It ... all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  even extended me an offer to be part of their family. I also think it ... it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to ... regrets of mine I try not to think about. But I hope I can put that all to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  sleeping schedule in my senior year of high school. I slept at 10:00 every ... As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I ... The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... particularly stressed about day 1 of my senior year. I was, however, feeling

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  should’ve been kinder and gentler to myself instead of intimidating myself out of things so much. I shouldn’t have felt guilty when I needed to take a break. I shouldn’t have scared myself out of opportunities to meet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a ... means we also have the fewest number of holidays this semester, clocking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010