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• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... be checking in on the students from our school and offering advice ... very own school. As small as people like to say MIT is, there’s a lot of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... scheduling eating and cooking within my busy schedule, and there are no more days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can ... with some high school counselors who wanted to change parents

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• 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 / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso ... road visiting schools, meeting students and conducting MIT Central Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  .) Unfortunately, I went to a big public high school of about 2000+, so my high ... leading to a discussion of my high school's terrible homecoming theme ... school teachers, seeing as she's a brilliant lady with a fantastic sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend ... then, but I can't take advantage of any of their offers now because they

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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