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• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  to make sure she takes advantage of her new school's resources. ''I ... students tell it, school is school, rarefied or not, and so they expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... the US apply to colleges during their final (senior) year in high school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social ... and highly-regarded liberal arts schools, fly a bit below the national

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... discovery and invention. And despite the Times' criticism of high school ... and more students are becoming involved with research at the high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  3514, and our ACT code is 1858. Don't slack off in school. Your senior ... high school. Take some time to smell the roses. Not the same few ... for similar reasons. But I think Rice can give both schools are run for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  his school. That was certainly a turn-off, though really the school is a ... school by its interviewer. I did keep up with Mr. Neighbours for a few

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

  Waiting always waiting

  

  admissions decisions, grad school admissions decisions, job application ... Mural. I wish I had done this more in high school. Watch a sporting event ... Boston. I watched and cheered for MIT and some high school friends this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  was I, someone who struggled in high school science classes, going to survive socially and academically at a school of geniuses? When I was ... of being allowed anywhere near this school. In a sort of last attempt

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  grad school and a full-time job, and gave us suggestions for resources ... Mapping: The Case of Urban and Rural Secondary Schools in Rwanda." "Semi ... . One girl explained to me that she's not going to graduate school because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  I was fifteen and intensely naïve when I graduated from high school ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school? Well, the obvious things…twelve months without school is fun, right

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  nine high school students with their materials science research projects ... success after my deferral would help with getting into my dream school. I ... finally showed up, and I actually got admitted to my dream school!!  I WAS

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in Berlin, teaching at a Deutsche Bahn summer school program. It was just ... seriously considering schools in the U.S. for college; I have my fingers

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  often submitted by a counselor or school official alongside the required Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  to a beach day after graduating high school (complete with a sand ... middle school Google Drive purge, and will someday be a kind MIT stranger

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  myself to high school Shorna. It’s a very strange relationship I have with ... myself was just… better. High school Shorna knew what she wanted. She didn ... hours a day, day in, day out. She was passionate about school. She had

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the ... and math jargon really scream "MIT." Show off that school pride! Con

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  life. High school was a pretty difficult time for me. I had a lot of ... socially. My mom, knowing how difficult school was for me, started promising ... remember strongly in my junior year of high school right before finals week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had ... schools to pursue different journeys, our eighth grade teachers gifted each ... going to go, I was more focused on the prospect of high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  school. Being surrounded by such STEM-oriented people, the very same people ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... high school. Where I struggled with math and physics, I thrived with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in ... control. Whether it be changing schools or time zones or getting into some

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019