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  what am i doing great question.

  

  a good taste of graduate school this way, which was my whole intent ... , or even do something random and apply to graduate school next fall if it came to that. But since I did not apply to grad school this fall (I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... want to graduate, but I don't reaaallly want to do the whole school thing ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  remind me that I'm at the hardest school in the country, the fact that I ... blogs and from talking to friends at school, is that many many many ... !" versions of classes that you may have found difficult in high school. Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but ... technical school. Day 1: Sketches from the Independent Activities Period I ... poems you write in middle to high school years when you have feelings. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... realize that I would've been fine going anywhere. It's not about the school ... , do want you want, and if someone doesn't let you into their school, go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually ... summer as I was filling out medical school applications, I was also working

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  considered “pranks” at any other school but since MIT makes up its own words ... school that makes somebody smile, makes them wonder how in the world this ... entire school is just phenomenal. I think I'll finish this post off like a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  live, was thinking of having a "high school dance" party, where we'd all ... to be with school. I've heard some consternation recently about my ... choice that I would be devoting much of my time to school and labwork, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , i hated having to do laundry every week, i hated being late to school ... graduating from high school. it’s not a color that’s really unnatural or stands ... through my post-high-school life, that thin line started to fall, as if it

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday. Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  people. Even at this highly technical school, the people are truly what ... continued success. I entered high school and, with the help of my co-captain and parents, got a few thousand dollars in funding to start our school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  as difficult as I expected, and high school is high school even in ... topped with pecorino) with three of the teachers from the school, I said ... crazy boys I loved in high school because they made me laugh. I wrote down

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  med school and make negative $30,000 a year). While it doesn't seem like ... I moved back to San Francisco and started medical school at my dream school, and studied every day for three months for my board exam. And then

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  my secondary school friends from Vietnam and my high school friends ... beginning of the school year, being away from all my friends and getting used ... school term. At Cambridge, it’s extremely rare for undergraduates to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  come college life: trying to pick a school, a living group, a major - you ... being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do ... like your favorite high school calculus teacher was the driving force

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... the hackers] that excellence comes from across our school. - Michael

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  -income family or attending an under-resourced school, as well as the advantages ... attending an affluent suburban high school. Regardless of one’s background

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... ) decided to go to medical school 4) thought that maybe he could get away with ... school 7) continued as a freelance science writer for the Economist through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012