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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this ... from other people. But at school, when those are really the only types of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has ... schools." It's interesting that the question is framed in terms of private ... have one of the lowest percentages of private school students in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... , more than I probably realize. So, while I may not think of my self as a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... , hundreds of freshmen are all around campus. Today, I saw Snively '11 from ... this week and next, though we're quite busy with meetings to prepare for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That ... taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  with any schools. If you ranked MIT as one of your College Match schools ... matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  .e. none of this October business from last year!). I've spent a ton of time ... amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in ... , I am reminded of both the breadth and the depth of MIT students and of

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  (former head of the New School), and Pat Harker (president of the University ... the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... the private school, but that was not because of the (lack of) prestige

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  the Stanford Graduate School of Business). Officially, this prize was ... effect of free pre-school on schooling and wages later in life the ... certain occupations or in school; these ways of avoiding service seemed to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  school vacations make it possible. I also know plenty of people who are ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  CTY also offer distance learning courses during the school year, which ... 's Talent Identification Program offers the option of either taking classes ... , check out Questbridge, which offers help with the costs of summer programs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes, we hand all the real ones out, and read all the names of everyone ... 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were admitted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018 ... Today, the Class of 2018 graduates from MIT.       ... exceptional. The admitted Class of 2018 includes mathematicians and marksmen and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  introductory marketing course for the MIT Sloan School of Management MBA's and ... . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  baddest guy in the college communications business. Of all the pictures I ... the school I'd been dreaming of attending all along - who let me crash ... quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... insisting we take a picture: far more chipper than I   The rest of ... conversation he gave me his business card and told me to call him if I was ever

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... school does not offer any calculus classes...I also worry about not being able to take AP classes, as they are not offered at my school. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  residences and businesses that graced the choked part of lower Saxony. Outside ... decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  most of what the studio above my old middle school had to offer, but at ... sophomore year of high school, and my little sister got into it too ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020