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• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... year rolled around, I felt that I had let my high school-self down. This ... time. I bought a DSLR in high school but it was mostly unused. A lot of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  academic opportunities for students in each school and because if it weren ... River. It really drove home the "school down the river" reference. We took ... , and partied together. After the summer ended and school and life got in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  from grad school, who knows"]graduate[/annotation], I'll have the time to ... books. But while the school year is going on, I guess they'll still be ... may not know that I was REALLY into quiz bowl in high school. Honestly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  I from preschool all the way through AP Physics C in high school (which I found to be one of few high school classes that was actually ... taking it in high school, and always supported me in my endeavors to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  organization allowed students across a wide age-range (from elementary school through high school) to participate in after-school programs where they ... school students didn’t have. “Every country that’s developed so far has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  pursue two years of research in high school, and I loved it. I loved it so ... schools like MIT have taken very demanding classes, and it's okay to ... note: no matter how good you feel about your high school career, don

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics ... progress and work that I’ve done here than I think most Physics courses offer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  From October 16-19, MIT hosted twenty juniors in high school for our ... school and not many opportunities. I usually spend my free time playing ... school looks for. I want to become an engineer, so finding a good school

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  through junior high and high school. By the time I got to MIT, it was pretty ... the project through the school year. Currently we're working on our ... 't understand how to do physics problems. Plus, I was still dating my high school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... for my high school, where most students preferred to participate in mock ... of a high school experience I'll never get back. Science bowl isn

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  ’re applying to more than one school. Don’t fall into the trap of the “dream school.” There are many places you could be happy studying (if you’d only let yourself). Don’t trash your current school in your application

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors ... one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like ... graduate school decision positively. The more time I had to learn math, I ... school. In addition to that, I derived a lot of motivation from our

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  less. It's nice that this school has a [annotation note="the MIT Outing Club runs Winter School every IAP to teach people how to enjoy winter ... worries about school, life, and things that I usually think about when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  tried out high school debate, so we'll see how this goes. 6 ... math, and that taking 18.02 junior year of high school seemed really ... break. I don't know if I could emotionally handle going to grad school at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is ... heard from students worried that their school’s pass/fail grading system ... to students in schools that are still using grades. I have heard from

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  introduce middle-school girls and nonbinary students to computer science using ... computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to ... school students), and Cascade (a five-weekend set of classes for high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our ... Florida for a week. We saw a high school friend one of the days and in a conversation she said, “… when I was in high school…” and continued talking for a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... 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 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 1 ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your ... do I send my high school transcript or updates? A: Your guidance

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015