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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  might strike as perfect after circus school and this show." Haha, I don ... deciding what schools to apply to, how to fill out your application, and eventually, how to decide which school to attend. At each stage, a school

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  -old daughter, Cristen, who just graduated from the elite Stuyvesant High School ... did well in school. She says that she doesn't know why. She shares a ... P.S. 142, the local school on the Lower East Side where almost every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Taking aim at MIT Plano West sending 4 students, more than any school ... when they tackle the prestigious university this fall. No other school in ... electrical engineering and computer science. Their high school graduation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... realized just how meager my high school preparation had been. I had never ... people who had "merely" gotten 4's on the AP test. In high school, I'd been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  was asked several times at my grad school interviews how the environment ... severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  with other motivated high school students and take classes. The program ... mentioned before that I graduated from my high school one year early, having exhausted my high school and community's academic opprtunities. My original

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... how you perceive your acceptance into the three “tiers” of schools

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... school did not prepare you for a basic survival skill. Your group was the ... Composition. The school's cultural phenomenon. A class all seniors expected and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  walking around campus had done what so many high school students strived for ... like 2 sec. I have visited schools that were physically more beautiful ... have interest in this school, you are in this group of “coolest people

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I ... school. I still keep in touch with a few friends from there. They did well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life ... each part of my life since I left this school. Too bad for you if you are ... Known School of Three Letters 🎓 What I miss Do you know what I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were ... decade-plus: I graduated from middle and high school, I got into MIT, and ... school and honestly, maybe Nicki Minaj will still be on the radio. The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  /carbon/other gases. Review your deadlines. Not every school has the same January 1st deadline. Most schools will take letters of recommendation and other ... possibilities are endless. Proofread, proofread, proofread. Look, schools aren

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  since middle school, and now that I’m here I practically have to pinch ... ’m at this school. That, and I have trouble waking up to alarms. So this blog is for those of you who love this school already and for those of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  , where every school in the entire county has been closed. San Diego County has 646 public schools, with nearly 500,000 students. A thousand homes ... remember volunteering at my high school, which served as an evacuation center

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  , though there is an application process whether you are in high school or ... laboratory, infantry officer school followed by command of an Army or Marine Corps platoon, flight school for the Navy or Air Force, or the nuclear

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  else from my high school applied. Took N + 2 AP classes, got X + 10 on ... graduate school applications. I was worried and was like "OMG my GPA is NOT PERFECT" but then I realized that graduate school is not just about GPA. For

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  " and a high school bully's demonstration of the Pauli Exclusion Principle ... , no matter how hard you try." Hey, this was intended for high school ... taste of Coca-Cola Classic, I fear that generations of high school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  , sometimes to my detriment. My high school math teacher once likened my mind to ... . I began searching for answers toward the end of last semester. School ... only removed me further. I had been accustomed to keeping school firmly

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  . One of the things my school's college counselor said was big this year ... office(s) at your school(s) of choice with emails, letters, and phone calls ... process?" I have heard about some schools, often schools more concerned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005