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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  that I have during the school year. Here at the NRAO in Charlottesville ... country. They go to school in Michigan, California, DC, down the street at ... possibly imagine needing to survive in the wilderness. During the school year

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  off with my best friend from Middle School, Monica. She left London ... and attending entirely different high schools and universities, with ... present. Just as Monica and I started to reminisce about Middle School, when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures ... to get my feet wet (err...only metaphorically) with Winter School. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  semester, I've been putting school on cruise control. This functionality ... ?) to this apparent cruise control on the school side is a burgeoning urge ... semester. Early in the school year, I kept getting emails about spending IAP

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  , you often have to interview at your school and compete for one of your school's nominations spots. I spent a week preparing for my MIT interview ... of the fact that you applied to MIT, one of the most selective schools

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  last year of high school, somehow synthesized those likes into ... trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you ... 'll tell you why it's better to work before grad school". I think he by "time

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  -old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new ... fluorescent glare in the school library, to eloquently preach about how the ... for students to transition from high school to life at MIT by being part

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  school. High school kids like space as much as college kids, right? So ... your school! I arrived at the conference armed with next to no knowledge

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  the other schools to which I'd been admitted. #3 on my list was the ... talked. About life. About school. About Glee. About the most random stuff ... , I think wishfully of my high school days where midnight was considered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  tomorrow, rather than writing this blog post. The thing is, in high school ... midnight every night. And there were a lot more tests in high school! But ... , and school is a pretty big part of life. But yes, awesome things have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... late nights every week since school started, involving going to the ... Organizations, a 9-credit class in the lovely new MIT Sloan School of Management

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  leaving for school in the fall, and since it's unclear when we'll have the ... ultimate frisbee with my friends from high school, as we have every Tuesday night of every summer since our senior year of high school. We're all a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  from high school Health) - DENIAL: "No this CANNOT be happening to a Mac ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a ... proficient in Python back in my junior year of high school because of SSP. kids

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... how to work in schools across America to change how children learn. I ... far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  , school and information about your family. That sets the boundaries, forming ... school recommendations, the report from your school and of course, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... where it is isn't wanted like that awkward kid in high school who invited ... for school to contact them via Facebook. Others suggest that students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so ... in my entire primary and secondary school P.E. career, but that’s what ... had played in high school) and dun dun dun – dodgeball! (because it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  that I knew in grade school. Not even the Earth that I knew from my magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM ... one of them had, by the end of high school, built a rocket out of their

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  keep saying high school is easy? I don't think it's easy. I actually ... enough. -Think that if you're working hard in high school, then you ... school too. I remember spending the majority of my sophomore and junior

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  varies by high school location and personality, but Senior Year is not ... 's interesting that only after coming here for school did I realize how unhappy ... graduating from high school, and the end of Senior Year is totally awesome

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008