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• 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
• 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