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  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  school forms come in past the deadline? It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school forms (e.g. teacher recommendations, secondary school report, transcript) come in after the January 1 deadline. We

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  : college is better than high school. Not that high school is bad--and here I ... the window and fell asleep. School years always start out this way for me. Even in high school, I'd go through the first two days of classes

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  MIT as an undergraduate, she did come here for grad school, and now she ... MIT as someplace other than just an engineering school. But as an ... I decided I'd rather go to a small school. So I went to Reed College

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  school students can learn less than or equal to /almost/ anything. It's a pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn ... awesome experience. My friend Maysarah, from my (local) high school attended

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  considered attending any schools on the West Coast, because I wanted to get ... colleges - go far. When I think about myself in high school, the way I ... college kids, kids who love their school and have never experienced many of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  school (crew is an obvious example, but I've known people who joined the football team without high school experience), but some teams are fairly ... school; your athletic talent alone won't get you into the school, but it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  familiar with the various differences between international school systems ... school are swahili and english, neither of which is considered foreign in ... Spanish in a local school. But the course will end by July, 2006. So should

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  challenging courseload in high school, that kid is certainly not going to be ... trying to determine which school is the best match for him/her. As a parent ... wonderful college experience that I wouldn't trade for anything, at a school

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• 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