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• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  struggled to make friends through elementary and into middle and high school ... person, and shape the relationships between people. I loved the school I ... believed then, and still believe now, that that school made the person I am

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  being a tech school. I’d already met so many fellow frosh with interests ... “art kid” for so long, and I was afraid that going to a STEM school would ... didn’t know any better) and ceramics in high school (before my class went

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  , including human-centered design workshops run by (my friend and grad school ... , while MIT has school colors, they are rarely deployed in our most visible ... school student from across the country or the world —  can see something

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  negative energy. for example, throughout middle school and high school i knew ... school and most of college i believed that people who worked in high

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  high school. [caption id="attachment_70766" align="aligncenter" width ... lot of undergrads choose to pursue graduate school in their chosen field ... during grad school. Learn More! Check out twelve.mit.edu to learn more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  , right?"]high school.[/annotation] It’s easy to slip into that persona ... back to high school, it feels like I knew what I was doing more than I do ... school, and I'm excited to see what that person will be like. I'm excited

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  sentences might be different —  "I transferred schools, and..."; "I took a mix ... an 11th grade instructor, and we understand that many secondary schools ... when I was in high school, but if I had, I think I would have asked Mrs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... school, both through learning it in classes and practicing for quiz bowl

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... class in high school, someone would sit me down and say things like “Amber ... , so as to get internships, or get in to grad school? How much will you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  freshman year playlist before i started school last August. and since my ... showed me this song a week into the school year. it's one of my favorites ... school year. later, though, i choreographed to it for my dance show, so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your ... before the school year starts, they publish a whole long list of advising ... webpages to list them all. You rank a shortlist and right before school

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  MIT, by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16 (2012) Excerpt: The school you choose in ... to this point, finding motivation to excel in high school and slowly ... goals, your dedication matters so much more than the school you go to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  person, the high school senior Yuliya who was so much less confused. What ... back in high school, and pursue that when you become a frosh. But explore

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  conversation about American education (just don’t ask me about charter schools ... the Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard School of Public Health. The ... life. Graduate school would be useful, but in what field: political

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... Psychology class in high school, but still entertaining to just sit back and ... I'm just a nerd and like school. Either way, I have classes that are

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... go to school here? why do i even go to school here if i can’t even

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  actually moved here. Throughout all of high school, the idea of college as a ... like high school. People told me that all the time before I got here, but ... celebrate the end of the first week of school, I went to Boston Calling on

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  my First Year. My First Year Out Of School. I worked part-time for ... in college? Nope. College, high school, grad school, all the chapters

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  year in high school, I didn’t even know what MIT was. Luckily, however, I ... ? Why here instead of all the other schools?” And the answer I got back ... Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  visit that was visiting from Arkansas with her high school choir. After ... them at the conference in Pittsburgh and discovered that their school was ... even more eventful day. I went to talk to two groups of high school

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011