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• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  campus Alan: At this point in the summer, CJ became extremely busy with whatever else he was doing. CJ: Busy with being a head counselor for PROMYS

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  intelligence)."]6 and 18[/annotation] at MIT! In high school, I loved browsing ... ’s Science Olympiad club—high school SciOly was what introduced me to geology ... Olympiad! Every IAP, we bring ~1000 high school students to campus for one of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... distance to your high school, DING DING DING! You're in a prime position to ... passage to sit in a classroom after school with a dozen other kids and watch

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  a daily basis about school assignments, and I spent a good portion of ... as many high school classes as I possibly could, with me at one point ... with school work, I could at least be the best at eating and exercise

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  year freshman and senior years... I have a 75% yield rate! School spirit Anonymous asked, For the most part is there an over sense of community, school ... part. So MIT students don't have "school spirit" in the traditional sense

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  hurt students when they apply to med school or law school? Thank you very ... am from california, go to a public school, and generally hang out with ... paragraphs). I think that visiting the schools you're considering is a crucial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  Carolina up until middle school, and even several years after moving to ... ’m not proud of. To be honest, my solution in high school was just… not to ... !?!” Sure, once upon a time I had hobbies. In elementary school, I summed up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  .” — Barbie   Like a lot of high school students, I spent the majority of ... personality designated to me. In middle and high school, as pretentious as it ... the high school equivalent of three of my classes this semester, I have

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  remember being in high school reading the blogs about the brass rat, and I ... semester that never surfaced after school ended. I mentioned briefly above ... [/annotation]simply because you want to tackle the school year with as many friends as possible

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  without expectations? My high school friend Deelia is an art and ... ="if you don't count creepily drawing classmates during boring high school ... quality that many strive for in their sketches. My high school art teacher

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to ... new ones! I used to be good at names in middle school, but that’s taken ... embellishing our wondrous accomplishments from high school. What started out as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  and comics. As a high school junior trying to put together a ... ’t have to be the same kind of art I made as a high school kid, but I want ... Providence, I hung out with my high school friend who now attends art school. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task-management were the standard, pre-planned journals that my school would give me ... journaling, which I took up in my junior year of high school because I was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  school and high school– I liked to think of things in term of absolutes ... fantasy novels and took advanced math class. Middle school was hard for me, so I decided to transfer to an all-girls Catholic high school after

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  excelled in both subjects in high school. I passed one ASE during sophomore ... understandable to a high school audience. (Mar 3) A lot of my work this semester ... for fun in high school? How did these things define who you were then

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  God[/annotation] and playing Anime Music Quiz with my high school ... best friend from high school (the one I wrote the 200-page fanfic with ... " align="aligncenter" width="493"] high school vs college: the duality of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  when it came to academics. Throughout high school, you see, I was taught ... pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get ... of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I ... . On Sunday night, we made an impulse decision to watch High School ... (the best High School Musical, obviously.) I slept at 2AM that night

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  ’t get bonus points on your application for visiting campus), some schools do! Additionally, at schools with regionalized offices, the person you ... piece of advice is mostly for other schools, on a personal note, it’s nice

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and ... the best at something and everything, while in high school, I felt that ... /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018