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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... about something, in the shower or while walking home from school, and then ... high school. I'm also kind of old-fashioned-hipster-ish about notebooks

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even ... worried about school. Several unproductive, fretful mind-cycles later, I ... nervous about another year of school deserve a break, and I deserve a little

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  -notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to ... in a literary magazine in high school, I knew it was something I want ... a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  definition. My high school rank. My highest test grade at MIT. My lowest test ... matter. The importance of your high school rank will linger through your college app process and fade away after you graduate from high school. The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  -other-category-you choose students. The difficulty with school wasn’t due largely to rigor of the curriculum; we chose to be at school because we liked it; no, the ... make friends at school if they don’t have to go through what I am going

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  My oldest son graduated from high school this summer and is now ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... schools and their particular needs. Right now, a small liberal arts college

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad ... other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy ... feels like to be accepted into a school, what it feels like to get a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  again—holidays, finals, and high school science competitions! *thumbs up ... seriousness, starting a project was kind of a milestone for me in high school ... -Based Proposal The project is conducted in a professional setting, such as a school

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  That school up the river, you know, the one with the brick buildings ... the souvenir racks, leaving room for one MIT shirt? That school who ... , this sign was an "experimental prank" designed to test which school

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  ;"<. It was freshman year of high school. I was obsessed with AMC 10 - I ... road trip back to school because all the roads were clogged from Chinese ... freshman year of high school, this Leap Day is my freshman year of college

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  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