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• 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

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but ... technical school. Day 1: Sketches from the Independent Activities Period I ... poems you write in middle to high school years when you have feelings. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 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 / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... realize that I would've been fine going anywhere. It's not about the school ... , do want you want, and if someone doesn't let you into their school, go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• 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 / Events

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually ... summer as I was filling out medical school applications, I was also working

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be ... my senior year in high school. They made good use of their limited ... seemingly anything at this school, doing what you love - and making something

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and ... schools, we hosted a central meeting on Wednesday, 9/17 at a place called ... school that Louann teaches English! What a small world. After the meeting

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008