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  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  , Every school night (Sunday-Thursday), promptly at 11 pm, one can hear the ... water for cocoa every school night." I also enjoyed reading about the ... applications makes me extremely optimistic about the state of our schools. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  his school. That was certainly a turn-off, though really the school is a ... 't necessarily judge a school by its interviewer. I did keep up with Mr. Neighbours

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  .m.Mira Loma High School Cafeteria San Jose, CASunday, September 10, 2006 at 7 ... , September 13, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.Acalanes High School Salt Lake City, UTTuesday, September 26, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.Bryant Intermediate School Denver, COWednesday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... career workshops, networking dinners, graduate school panels, dinners with ... programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  you until 2029 (2006 plus 5 years -- when I'm done with grad school ... applicant whose parent(s) attended the school. Some schools give preference to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  and my two high school best friends around on New Year's and b) came to ... mom working at Draper, if he didn't have to do that pesky school thing during the school year and could work 40 hours a week all year. He has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... 're looking for. So this was a great school visit, despite the lack of student ... ' educations and created the school. There's a private dining room off the main

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  the recruitment, not the travel. I'm looking forward to the school ... . We're hoping that lots of other schools will begin blog programs so ... every school that interests you. Some of you have written to ask about

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• 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