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  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  main buildings that made up our school. One end of the hall had a large ... of the few times everyone could see everyone else in the school ... school half of us tried to flirt with). Outside of this, not much happened

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but ... in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities ... traditionally-thought-of-as-MIT-ish things like science fairs or math competitions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of class offerings that are really interesting: Heavy Metal 101 is turning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... graduate of MIT who majored in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Mollie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  other highly selective schools. Each university's yield (the percentage of students who accept their offer of admission) is predicted to decrease ... . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the ... productive week of my life”. Yet another busy, hard working friend says while ... get a job to help pay for school, on top of doing a lot of great things

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school ... mission has been to generate advanced research within MIT's School of ... there you have it regarding one of MIT's smallest and least-known schools

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  life and set of priorities, and school was just yet another thing on my plate. Even in high school (which sort of seems like ancient history now ... happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  combined with all the business of the start of a new school year, but ... 'd suffered through years of Saturday Chinese school when I was a kid, but I was ... of the school year, Daniel and I did a media exchange, where we would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  strict routine, and living with thousands of others."]this school ... the other side of it--if you're not busy having as much "fun" as ... “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  unable to offer admission, please remember that, as one of our bloggers ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now ... number of aspiring students has exceeded 18,000. As a result, our admit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  In another instance of historyposting, we'll look into the history ... different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do ... asking about why the MIT colors are the way they are. And of course, being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  people leave the country and never return, are afraid of doing business ... National Advanced School of Public Works. They known each other all their ... video made by the MIT School of Engineering, discussing his work. 

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  Biologists and Engineers 20.586: Science and Business of Biotechnology 20 ... .105: Ethics for Biologists and Engineers 20.586: Science and Business of ... .105: Ethics for Biologists and Engineers 20.586: Science and Business of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom ... for help much faster than I did in high school, but I wonder how much of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  :) After that, it's back to school. Boston's been dealing with a lot of snow ... I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015