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  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  -old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new ... fluorescent glare in the school library, to eloquently preach about how the ... for students to transition from high school to life at MIT by being part

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  school. High school kids like space as much as college kids, right? So ... your school! I arrived at the conference armed with next to no knowledge

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  the other schools to which I'd been admitted. #3 on my list was the ... talked. About life. About school. About Glee. About the most random stuff ... , I think wishfully of my high school days where midnight was considered

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  tomorrow, rather than writing this blog post. The thing is, in high school ... midnight every night. And there were a lot more tests in high school! But ... , and school is a pretty big part of life. But yes, awesome things have

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... late nights every week since school started, involving going to the ... Organizations, a 9-credit class in the lovely new MIT Sloan School of Management

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  leaving for school in the fall, and since it's unclear when we'll have the ... ultimate frisbee with my friends from high school, as we have every Tuesday night of every summer since our senior year of high school. We're all a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  from high school Health) - DENIAL: "No this CANNOT be happening to a Mac ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a ... proficient in Python back in my junior year of high school because of SSP. kids

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... how to work in schools across America to change how children learn. I ... far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• 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