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Blog / How to Human
Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do
year seems to go by now compared to how it felt in high school has made ... time seems to move on. Two years ago, I applied to this school, and now I -
Blog / Academics & Research
[Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27
colleges and some Navy schools. At MIT I’m planning on double-majoring in 6 ... , 15, and 22. I graduated from high school in Memphis, TN and grew up in -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper
’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of ... school is what most people would associate with the art – following step -
Blog / Challenges
whiplash feelings from yesterday
more about this school than you did in any previous year, that after ... feel LONELY because all your friends at mit are going to grad school or ... , if young people at this school weren’t just left to their own devices -
Blog / Academics & Research
everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession
that make sense with where I am now. i. ambition Now, in high school ... . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... even broader. If I can get into some of the top schools in the nation -
Blog / MIT Life
Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo
school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it ... Cambridge as much as I would've liked during the school year, so that's one of ... actually read back in middle school, and it motivated me to buy a collection -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post
student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying ... student who is desperately trying to impress the school they applied to ... happiness The high school senior who is feeling bittersweet about impending -
Blog / How to Human
To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth
schools seemed to be having a great time, so why was I struggling so much to ... have in high school. I had to learn to spot and avoid succumbing to peer ... you were in high school. The future you will thank you later. -
Blog / MIT Life
Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9
Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... Arthur a little more than two thousand times over the course of high school ... in Ilocos Norte. The day after my sixteenth birthday I ditched school -
Blog / How to Human
end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It
same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... my online school experience. I spent a lot of time working on my final ... ,[/annotation] which had a strangely specific word requirement of 2,370. High school me -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?
friend group in high school and it was never something I particularly ... to a tech school; hated the GIRs; hated being around only STEM people ... after the liberal arts-y schools that rejected me put up a few comics on -
Blog / Miscellaneous
No one: Absolutely no one:
this book.” “Oh, wow we had so many stocked up school supplies!” Next ... was our middle school version of Memory Mushroom. Letters from friends ... ’s put them with the school supplies.” “Oh wait, why are they covered in -
Blog / Challenges
The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!
subject area that they excelled in during high school was the subject they ... college by what I did or didn't succeed in during high school. I recently ... and slips off branches. By senior year of high school, many people have -
Blog / About Decisions
Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later
applied back in high school, I didn't know why I wanted to go to MIT nor ... with grad school/jobs, and I've been advised many times to focus more ... the NSF. I'll be heading off to MIT this coming fall for grad school in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life
, and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... of the times in high school when I would stay after school ranting to -
Blog / Admissions
West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff
med school. My flight was delayed due to ongoing construction at ... prestigious science and engineering research competition for high school ... conducting at Civic on Internet filtering in public schools and libraries as -
Blog / About Decisions
why mit
- when i was in high school i heard people say that MIT graduates tend to be really grounded, more so than graduates from other schools. i didn't really know what that meant when i was in high school. now i think i do. my -
Blog / Events
Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last
enduring symbol of class pride and school spirit. And right now for MIT ... 'm really proud of my school.) A full illustration and description of the ... toughest schools in the U.S., and a reminder to take a second and recognize -
Blog / Academics & Research
jr fall classes &c
, and then i saw my brother, who is applying to grad schools, and then i ... small children, only to remember that they are starting high school. i'm a ... hopefully in grad school). in the past year, i've gained significant