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• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that ... killed herself." My mom found out about this and decided to switch schools ... school. No one actively caught me or anything of the sorts, I had just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  I had been reading the admission blogs all through high school purely ... helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away ... need-blind admissions schools, meaning you get awarded financial aid

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and ... public schools that educate the majority of children, many of the points on ... ; We are also each assigned a classroom or two at a local public school

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... . Here I was, admitted to a fantastic school, the news of which had travelled around to extended family and my entire high school (it was a very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  , right? But I quickly learned that leading a high school club or two is ... . =================================== In high school, I spent a lot of time playing music. I was playing my beloved clarinet as well as marching competitively with my high school’s

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  professors at each school to find out which ones I might want to work with, but ... advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll ... , you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... . We talked a lot mostly about what we've been doing outside of school ... 've always been an extracurricular fiend (Amnesty International, school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• 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 / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to ... accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... accomplish by the end of the school year.

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• 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