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  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  at the other Cambridge: Unlike the American school year which runs from September to May with a summer break, the Cambridge school year

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  ). Only two kids from my school applied to MIT early action - Curtis, a good ... high school. Man, the passage of time is a scary thing).

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  , I got into my back-up school!!'") 2. Have long talks with your friends ... coronary heart disease.) 8. Check out the schools you applied to or are

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  fact, because I'm pretty much still a high school senior (plus one year ... . And it may or may not be your dream school, but at the end of the day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  Fund which supports women UROP students pursing research in the School of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  mate Mirat '08. People ask me, is MIT really the third ugliest school in ... say for some other schools. Meara "Killer" '09 and Diana '08

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  school's president, Susan Hockfield, is a neuroscientist, and the institute ... grown out of medical schools, where researchers could tap a ready pool of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  ) I headed up into the senior room for the GHAMAS school visit. Robbed ... school grad) this was mind-blowing. Ah, technology. Finally got to my

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  students from the area. One of my friends from high school, Pam, is one of 09 ... excited to be getting back to school and all that jazz. What about you guys

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  be applying to graduate school this fall, I'm not entirely psyched ... 'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  'd like to go to grad school, but right now I'm not sure in exactly what ... Bomb by U2. I ran cross-country in high school, and did crew as a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  schools where their email address is some garbled mess of intials and ... was a high school nickname given to me by my boss, and I thought it gave

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  on Saturday - is actually teaching high school students terrible ... writing your high school English department is teaching, you have a problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  required only for students in U.S. school systems, do other students need to ... ; Manic Sages" Thanks, other Matt! And if you're a high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT ... from some really amazing school (maybe MIT) to spend some quality time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I ... ? What's the environment like around your school? What about your parents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  . Interesting graph shape choice. (Can you tell our school likes Pokemon

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym, it's only fitting that MIT is itself a LAND OF ACRONYMS. Our first few weeks as a freshman on campus involve a deluge of new three-letter codes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Christmas music every morning on the drive to school, but I haven’t heard much ... carpet beneath my bare feet, or the drives with my brother to school, or ... in the energy of my high school for longer, or asked friends more than

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  -you cards, too—I remember visiting my middle school teacher a few years ago, and he kept a thank-you card I wrote when I transferred schools. I love ... didn't disappear until I talked about it with one of my high school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023