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• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  kindness! My next order of business after waking back up was going to

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  , Autonomous, and Business.  I’m the Software and Autonomous Engineering Lead

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  vacation at the end of a busy winter break, and I am excited to dig back in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  to go on. But Disney World was serious business. As soon as rope drop

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... interactions with high school and college students these days — whether talking ... out when I was a high school senior. (I still don’t feel like I do, to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  high school–the one who excelled in classes, or juggled impressive ... , sometimes it stings. Going from the “smart” friend in high school to the “dumb ... myself: Why didn’t I work harder in high school? Maybe then I could’ve been

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  … since I was a freshman in high school.” I’m a classic case of falling down ... middle or high school, but my hair was always thick, pin-straight, and ... my hair has over me. When I was a junior in high school, I was a bit

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... want to go to grad school. That's fine if I don't know what I want to do ... other than 6-4? Something I learned from high school robotics is that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  question on[annotation note="A website that MIT and a lot of other schools ... [annotation note="I felt something like this as a senior in high school and that was pretty great too. But because high school occupied so much less of my life

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... " align="aligncenter" width="800"] google doc from high school[/caption] It

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  was like “uh. You want to join a high school math team. -Alison"] She ... school sophomores, and another to high school juniors. Each email would

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  cost?? For the record, I had no social life in high school—I took a ... didn't leave my house except to go to school or quiz bowl matches ... culture. I didn't attend Shishu Bharati, the school that teaches first

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  doing my makeup back in middle school and the first two years of high school, but I dropped off in favor of skincare. I've been maintaining a ... since high school and because of that, I've realized that the people I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  , she would like you to know the oceanic fact that schools of fish use ... schools. If trapped on a desert island, she would die missing pad thai ... where the high school was used as the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  ”. For documentation purposes, my last last day of school will begin with ... brave new world. I was a high-school student in a college ... last last day of school, it ends.

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  . Tonight I have a choice. I mean, school hasn’t even started yet so I have no ... , to be comparing your school to a home. Cue eye-roll. I have been ... . I’ve poured my heart into building my life here at school and so there

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved ... enough to take the hit. Besides, you took physics in high school. But in ... at the last two months of material. Welp. Many times in high school

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  engineering school, also stole the Caltech cannon.  Therefore, after retrieving ... though we make fun of the school as a part of the Caltech-MIT "rivalry ... living out in California since he went to grad school out there, and it was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  candidate school. According to Kahneman: ...as it turned out, despite our ... with the judgments of their commanders at the officer-training school ... school was negligible. Our forecasts were better than blind guesses, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  stop is within walking distance from the Berklee School of Music and a ... beginning of the school year for dinner. (As I checked out their website, I ... , the other really well-known Cambridge school. But more importantly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010