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• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  you did in high school. Yes, MIT is harder than high school, but getting ... aware of is how different the ASE is from high school/prior content. 5 ... validation so much less than I did in high school because I know everyone here

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... -cultural appropriation hanging bead doors on my closet for most of elementary school ... : Sources of Strength. It was branded as the school's mental health awareness

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  . I met my first boyfriend through a high school chemistry class. We ... somewhere better than our public school in Portland, Oregon. (I cast my ... mid-September of that school year, he made a Facebook account and we

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college ... -depth than I'd encountered in high school, and I got much better at using

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated ... graduated from high school, i wasn’t really that sad either, because i was ... . All of my friends from high school, and the friends I made through

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  really, as seen in Indonesia, more here) -- Do charter schools improve students’ test scores? (the Massachusetts urban charter school do, but the non-urban charter schools actually reduce achievement from the baseline

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  . It depends on too many factors. I could give you my high school resume ... my EC assignment: I have known the interviewer assigned to my school ... 't exist, although I will get confirmation as soon as I can. Your high school

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  , frankly, there's a lot that Greek life has to offer. But I don't know if I ... even extended me an offer to be part of their family. I also think it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  a 360 degree view of the sunset. Someone was playing the violin nearby

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in some form, so I wasn't fully in the high school mindset? Not sure ... whether you belonged at this school. I know, I know — you had thought ... enough to achieve enough in high school to feel like you belonged here

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was ... feels like) the first three days of school. [annotation note="to repeat a phrase that is in almost every conversation about high school memories

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  school — the idea that people will judge me solely based on my research ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be ... well with a group in the same way that I did with my high school friends

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  reminds me of my old high school habits. In high school, I pushed myself to ... . During my senior year of high school, I managed to calm these habits down ... and I took a light load and I was basically done with high school. In my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Swift song in high school (which in Nigeria runs from grades seven to twelve). It was a boarding high school a few hundred miles away from home ... --cellphones, laptops, iPods. Which just meant those devices found their way into school

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017