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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  ? But what makes this old man think of school today? Well, I've been ... movie adaption, this week. As an old man, thinking of school, I was ... to some entries that provided examples of me skipping school to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  from Princeton, a business degree from the MIT Sloan School, and an M ... School in Seattle, WA), was an active member of MIT AISES throughout ... opportunity to "acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as the traditional stewards of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... . Since graduation, I’ve been pursuing the slow boat of academic science — I went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  high school of 2,000+, graduating class of 620, class sizes of about 20 ... academically. AP classes were abundant - the school offered somewhere around 30 ... . Maybe you came from a school of only 5 AP classes, where you were the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  year of high school, when he placed at the Massachusetts State Science ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Olympics). We entered every event offered. We won most of them, but I think ... Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of ... school crew program at the Detroit Boat Club (I was on the varsity crew

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I swear) for eight years at a time, but finals were busy, and summer came

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  MIT had perhaps been a bit of a blessing in disguise. My high-school ... unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission ... , here, and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  trying to find disinfecting spray at Target at the beginning of this school ... assignments and tests ahead of me, I was feeling very busy. And I hadn’t quite ... boxes. But where will I store the rest? One of my friends offers me her

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the summer between junior and senior year of high school as a carousel operator ... school year, and then worked the summer between high school and college. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be, too A conversation with LIVE by Po-Shen Loh

  

  and MIT Admissions, presented as a bit of a conversation so you can see some of the behind-the-scenes thinking happening at MIT and LIVE ... practice critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. In rural schools

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • August 3, 2026
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  "too busy" to spend time in the dining hall. I made the mistake of ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you ... - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  approximately 750 will be composed of MIT faculty and staff, business and ... Pro Tem Stanley Rosenberg Superintendent of Cambridge Public Schools ... Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Under Dr. Hockfield’s leadership, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  of violence, not some petty high school falling out. But as my ... . It still feels foreign to me, to think that this group of high school ... high school, I was pretty anal about getting A's. In my freshman year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020