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  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
• Blog / Admissions

  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