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• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  number of girls in scientific high schools and boys in classical ones ... day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of ... , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  lot of afterschool programs at local high schools that I would like to ... sort. In high school, I really loved tutoring and the idea of helping ... As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  apartments with [annotation note="9 out of the 11 other freshmen, one junior ... here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton ... of environment. I'm really enjoying the agency that living here has

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 ... . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  students from the area. One of my friends from high school, Pam, is one of 09 ... Pig...no joke :^) So as of yet, you have not been introduced to my best ... getting our fill of food, we went to the Cincinnati Reds game where they

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• 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