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• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  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 ... -9184. Q: Where do I send my high school transcript or updates? A: Your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a ... others while in college, I’ve often asked myself, “What would high school ... you is doing, but how you’re doing relative to yourself. High school me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -three medical schools to show them who I am: a wonderful, accomplished ... inappropriate for my med school applications. Three weeks ago, I wrote a no ... first day of school in the United States, at the start of third grade, was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  Before They Left High School") you are so amazingly, incredibly wrong that ... my elementary school's gymnasium in the fourth grade. All I know about ... technology. I just graduated from a nerdy tech school and the only reason I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 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 / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  't feel absolutely full to the brim. Happy back to school season, everyone

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  technically acted in Speech & Debate in high school and I just adore acting ... work the bustle of the school breaks help   I've been

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  writing (with more words), but my work builds upon some of my high school interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in ... this school. that's just how time works, i guess i stopped caring about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... high school, but times that i remember with the sort of fondness that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  now reading the messages that my high school classmates wrote for me ... memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  , candlepin, big sign that says ALWAYS OPEN -  two white vans with SCHOOL BUS ... high school’s outdoor track, just a stone’s throw away from our house. In middle school, I learned how to ride a bike there, feeling the wind blow

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  school he is about to leave, trying to feel some kind of good-bye: “I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  your dream school.   It may, however, go a long way toward helping you get into the right school.

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  home, I haven’t spent this much time at home since high school. I’d like ... other than school, eating healthy so you know there’s always a silver

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020