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• 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
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  school. I speak four languages, and traveled frequently to two other ... full of personal matters on top of school, not to give in to indifference ... application requirements, I was in 7th grade. I planned to take middle school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  before I came to MIT (not even as something done at other schools), but ... longer if you want. There are dozens of schools with AFROTC (Air Force ROTC) detachments, but if you go to a school that doesn’t have their own

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  same (awesome) group of friends that I had made in elementary school. If ... shift in my thoughts made the transition from high school to college less ... fear and optimism). Whereas in high school, joining a new club or student

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  squeezing past thousands - THOUSANDS - of middle- and high-school kids and ... schoolers. At about noon, I process what is coming. 100 middle school kids ... hundred. I've never taught Middle School kids for Splash. They might be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  from high school, arabella, came to cpw this year, so i got to host her ... -new-people-and-conversing skills have improved enough since high school that this is actually really ... than most schools for maximum flexibility). i have never seen such a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few ... grade of high school, so I was super excited to see them again. We got ... vocabulary to tell grandpa in detail what I was learning in school or tell

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• 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