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  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  Marching Mapper is an application for designing marching band drills, and it came out just a few months ago. My raging school spirit inspired me to choreograph a piece for MIT. The app is surprisingly easy to use

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  variables with physics variables 4:23 — I dread grad school applications ... those turtles. They don’t have grad school applications. I get another ... :00 —  I have a shift guarding the school cannon for an hour, to make sure it

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  - religious school instructor. There is never a quiet moment in his life, and ... elementary and middle school, the places we went for vacation (El Valle de ... people I knew are gone. The friends I made in school, the bowling league

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... -on suitcase, and a newly purchased MIT sweatshirt that I probably wore to school ... that would show up on my high school transcript or worksheet that had to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of ... familiar in high school. And then I started panicking, well, what if that ... was in in high school, and maybe that awareness will be enough. Even

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  makes the difficult transition from high school to college easier ... perhaps one of the most iconic Gen-Z movies of them all: High School Musical. Emma and I often quoted High School Musical around our friends, and it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any humanities field (21), and any engineering field (E). We were recently messaged about the requirements of 21E,…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  school hallway accosted me with a new bundle of numbers. It was ... until high school and even college really, the answer to the question ... going through the school system, the path forward seems to be relatively

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I just finished gulping down a breakfast burrito. Back in high school, I always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  event unique only to the intercollegiate events. Each school can register ... individual event. We placed 2nd out of 12 schools, a record top finish! Even more impressive is the fact that other schools have figure skating teams

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  through launch as an old-school open thread. We decided this the worst idea

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from med school. Tomorrow, I ... prestigious science and engineering research competition for high school ... Internet filtering in public schools and libraries as part of an broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to concentrate on assignment again. Fail Browse memes Get hungry Eat all food; order more Wait for more food to come;…

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  the many people who pass through MIT don't. However, the School of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can ... . Sometimes, we define ourselves by our schools or workplaces, or even our future schools and workplaces, which have not yet occurred. Sometimes, we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  high school who had become tired of staring at the bottom of a swimming ... was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some ... effort every day, even when school is tough, if I remind myself that the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  , including: We are a non-binding, non-restrictive Early Action school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  out in elementary school are apparently (now that it’s my money) really ... even Tuesday, if you don’t have school today). My little brother, who is ... ’s Day twice in school on Friday, that both times were during homeroom

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  from your rank list because if you do not match with any school on ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your ... ) 687-9184. Q: Where do I send my high school transcript or updates? A

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014