Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  thinking. For six years I attended a school where the nature of interactions ... easy friends with everyone. As one of the school’s unofficial nerds, my ... delivered to our school, bore increasingly frequent mentions of Radical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long ... a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... one I left in high school that I don't feel any sort of void left behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  school that offers *any* AP classes. Basically, the goal of the admissions ... understand that it is important to do what is enjoyable in school in terms of ... really enjoyed the learning environment of the schools I visited, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm culture was after spending our first years on Zoom]. Through all of this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now ... ;   You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of your business, but try not to worry too much. Remember the difference

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily ... Slocum, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and 2.007 Design and

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell ... Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Codecademy Pro for the rest of the school year DuoLingo - now is a great time ... Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  was founded in 1855 it was called the Farmers' High School of ... school with a graduating class of 570 students. Most State High graduates ... students) of their peers from other Pennsylvania high schools (—which does

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... ) "On the 14th of March, MMXXV, The High Elders foretold a cursed festivity. The Moon shall glow ablaze, like a dragon’s eye, A drop of scalding

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  already knew a good number of my classmates from high school or from the ... people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  School of Architecture. For a minor, I may choose either CMS - Comparative ... replace most English exclamations, expressions of feelings, and terms. And ... . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... using Notion to track all my class assignments. i feel very on top of ... of stressing out about it like i did last year. i'm happy doing things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  friend Kevin upon learning of this: "That's not fair." Many schools and ... 't get my butt out of this chair, then I guess it's business as usual ... that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  , and to stay out of business that belongs to you and only you. This is ... (more specifically, Matt McGann and Ben Jones) were two of the speakers ... high school counselors signed up to listen to Matt's and Ben

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary ... many ideas, and having learned something new. This year, some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , pika rush* coincides with the first week of school, injecting sunbursts ... marathon? Nobody, that's Who. *At MIT, the first week of school is reserved ... - Intro to Comparative Media Studies. Offers an overview of the social

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  storyteller I possibly could be. High school was a period of full bloom for me ... to school—a twenty-minute walk that involved lots of long, grim ... the walls of my school were visible. It was at the edge of this field

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014