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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  , school and information about your family. That sets the boundaries, forming ... school recommendations, the report from your school and of course, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... where it is isn't wanted like that awkward kid in high school who invited ... for school to contact them via Facebook. Others suggest that students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  My high school didn’t have the broadest range of athletic options, so ... in my entire primary and secondary school P.E. career, but that’s what ... had played in high school) and dun dun dun – dodgeball! (because it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  that I knew in grade school. Not even the Earth that I knew from my magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM ... one of them had, by the end of high school, built a rocket out of their

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  keep saying high school is easy? I don't think it's easy. I actually ... enough. -Think that if you're working hard in high school, then you ... school too. I remember spending the majority of my sophomore and junior

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  varies by high school location and personality, but Senior Year is not ... 's interesting that only after coming here for school did I realize how unhappy ... graduating from high school, and the end of Senior Year is totally awesome

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  pick up in high school, but for the rest of us who stared out the windows dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie-d, this is something we'll have to develop now. (Girls in my high school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  high school!), which provided a very welcoming rest. I was exposed to a deeper level of my UROP that I was working on during the school year in ... reach out and grasp them. (this also goes for high school!) Random fact

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high-school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks ... MIT. It's sort of contradictory - how many people go to summer school at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  , telling me that we're going to school (for some odd reason, I never used an alarm clock in high school - my sister always got up before me, so she ... school. 7. Discovery is learning to manage a SAT preparation program with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year ... . That's right, two and a half years of high school math condensed into 4 ... high school, but it's certainly something you'll face at MIT, so it

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  Have you all had your high school proms yet? If your school doesn’t have prom or if you decided not to go, then you probably aren’t missing ... the same stationary that my high school prom committee used. The last

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  it an honor. And unlike in high school, where there are a lot of other ... philosophy that I would apply to a bunch of schools, find out where I was ... is, the best school for me. For many of my friends and classmates

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  've been writing to since my freshman year in high school will be taking a few days off from school so we can finally meet and spend some time ... are traveling to Fredericksburg, VA to talk to middle/high school girls

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was ... time around, summer is over and school is starting (although not for a ... need for the beginning of the school year. Oh - one more thing that you

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The MIT school fight song, "The Engineers' Drinking ... 've got six days to choose a grad school. I've got it narrowed down to the ... paradise of Stanford. But it's hard--grad school is different because you don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  wrestling. Later, we both did varsity wrestling in high school, which is a ... ) Huckabees, School of Rock, and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. There ... good as, say, Anchorman or Old School, but still pretty good. Ice skating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  January or February, after your school's first semester grades are released ... school report and transcript haven't shown up as processed yet. Is this ... circumstances, fewer than four high school English courses will be fine. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Wednesday afternoon, after I finished up two more grad school apps (eek!) and ... school, Malox (actual name: Alex), towering over me. Malox had come to ... daughter of my best friend from high school (I'm from Ohio, okay?) -- it's a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  nothing like what you've experienced in high school. Test grades are ... school, my grades here are awful. But when you stop to realize that your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005