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• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  sophomore year of high school but decided to pick it up again because of the ... so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... ....chances are that you're bored out of your mind. you probably miss your friends a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... of emails since Saturday and a bunch of blog comments, all asking for "just a couple of sentences" about why a specific applicant was not

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... -day, six-school driving tour of schools of the Northeast, spring break of sophomore year of high school. Yep, that’s right. One school info session

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  challenge the stereotypes of every school to which you’re thinking about ... Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... nice because most of them pay for medical school, but they're definitely ... Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  and pick up. My sister and I are really close, but now that both of us ... , and a few places to buy food."]Stud[/annotation] because it’s too busy ... stairs of Walker Memorial and into Caving Club office. Could I have skipped

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  sun-drenched, flip-flop-friendly sidewalks of that other school in ... playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if ... to Wikipedia, and two of them offer interesting solutions to Aviv

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up ... essential. in Sloan Business Club's Board Education Program, which I talk more about here, one of my weekly assignments is to prepare news briefs

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  of anything other than more school had never crossed their minds ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and ... In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  shimmying. It would have to be worthy of a film school submission. The ... as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... pair of heels on when I was 6. Maybe even younger. I charged into my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... idea is that students in England come out of high school (or Sixth Form ... 'm senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  Event Outreach Chair of MIT's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - one of ... school students to participate in an exciting annual event presented by the MIT Society of Women Engineers: The Exploring Majors Fair. "Through

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  of high school complaining about bio objectives (weekly bio homework ... -knit high school. But then of course, once you became a sophomore it was all ... got straight A's in high school and had a blast doing all of my random

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... so busy learning ALL of the basics. (And with a field so broad, there ... . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  little montage where you get to see the live comparison of how each person ... blog form, so instead of filming clips, we went through our days and did our best to snap a picture every hour of what we were doing at the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  , and by my senior year of high school I understood that there were more ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  leading a village of Vikings. It's good to be back at school--see you all ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  at MIT these past two years) was taking care of some business at the ... covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth ... maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014