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• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  school (hooray for being a clueless little freshman released from the ... . That was what I looked forward to all through high school, and it’s been ... in high school who I trust with my life, and we had more than our fair

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  In my junior year of high school, I started taking single ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in ... to multiply multiple-digit-numbers in elementary school, thinking to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them about their personal experiences. When I entered high school and became ... from graduating seniors at my high school that the social aspect of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  school, it's felt like I've been on a fixed trajectory. I do well in middle school to get into a good high school and get good placements in classes. I do well in high school to get into a good college. I do well in college

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  , peculiarly, where I went to high school. For whatever reason, the inquiry of which high school one goes to is quintessentially St. Louisan. I never ... us. Each school or district comes with its own set of generalizations

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  school, I was relatively hyperconscious about my weight and my physical ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I ... middle school. I hated running. I was not good at it. I am asthmatic and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  that felt good when you got rejected by your dream school (sorry). that i ... performed in school because of our friendship. i think i should be more fair to you since our high school was a breeding ground for academic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  high school student, this might seem a bit counterintuitive. Isn’t the ... . What I feel like I learned: I suspect that in graduate school, I ... effects (e.g., my friends learned that I do well in school) and private

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don ... finish it before school starts next week.  Tuesday  12:00 pm I have a ... panicking over the realization that school starts in less than a week. I just

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  you’re already in college or still in high school. Even for just a ... it"]"breaks" in between.[/annotation] High school, and all school ... ?"]everything.[/annotation] I’ve gotten all of my school work done without ever having to do work

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  is grad school and whatever comes after that, but when you're in your ... recommendation for grad school. [caption id="attachment_48928" align ... -telling. [annotation note="She's Not Like Other Girls"]As a Luddite at a tech school

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  ; Within the past year, my second little brother graduated middle school and my littlest brother graduated elementary school.   Within the ... high school entrepreneurship program called Endevvr about crowdfunding

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  school for me. Then, while visiting I saw how students were meshing their ... these admissions blogs that I truly fell in love with the school, so it is ... . Instead of my childhood dreams of going to art schools in Manhattan, my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  . Our MIT crew (~5 undergrads) were hosted by 3-4 local high school ... trips around the city. Here's a picture I took while standing on a school ... school competition, and they called themselves the 21 gongs. They sang a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  back when about "fit".  Like many MIT people, in high school I was always ... school, where I could put some marginal effort into classes and get good ... things in high school (I harboured this dream that I would ace every test

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  from THE SCHOOL YEAR is that my calendar looks blissfully white and empty. During the school year, my calendar looks, to quote my friend: "like a ... during the school year. But those seven days at the end of the summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on ... , with medical school acceptances in hand, ready to begin the next chapter ... school, others are working in industry - but the common thread is that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  attended elementary school, junior high school, and senior high school; and ... new freshman at a ...certain liberal arts school on the other end of ... . Greg and I took her to that liberal arts school to register and drop off

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  recommendation to graduate school. b) That fear of being seen as dumb? Well, that ... ? You’re not 17 anymore. You’re 22. Hell, you’re in grad school Hell, you ... why. At what point in high school was I able to convince someone that I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first ... world, right here, with my coaches and their skating school.   V ... my best to push off school a little and head to the rink 3 or 4 times a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019