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• 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
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy ... prestigious school in Cambridge, Massachusetts." Obama began. Cheers. "Hold on a second. Certainly the most prestigious school in this part of Cambridge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  .) Hi Yan - When Quinton McArthur came to our school the other day, I ... , which I naively crammed into the Lagrangian instead of kickin' it old-school ... drawing diagrams, because you probably skipped art class in high school

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal Finance was one of two classes that the school administrators recognized as ... school schedule, I've always suspected that finances are sort of important

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  his homework when he should’ve in high school, I wasn’t. I was a goof, I ... ’s not a particularly good study habit, but it worked for me in high school ... when my friends at other schools were out partying, but I cannot

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... arts school in Austin, Texas. As summer break ended and we all parted ... characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  --never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school ... . That is what I am wailing. Seriously, y'all. High School was slow. Slow ... . It was slow! Like, I was in high school for probably one thousand years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  weekend before, and I'm missing 3 days of school because of that, so if I ... summer is very different from MIT during the school year. CPW rocks. A lot ... . Of course, the school you're actually in now is pretty important too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.) We went to the ... high school field hockey team. I thought I had a great, original story to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  the same time, my two-plus year absence from school had a profound ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  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 / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  ’m still so grateful for the opportunities I had at my high school there, but ... high school working in the robotics lab (shout out FIRST Robotics!), and ... throughout my four years of high school. As the looming threat of college

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post 💕 🐕 💕 🐕💕

  

  the top schools on the planet." and I realized that I was mis

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  school, but I never really started thinking about the habit until coming to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  Texas, where the concept of a fraternity (especially at a state school ... I observed in, cue ominous music… high school? Okay, peek into my life for you all here so that this blog actually makes sense. High school

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  the school year is over! Blog once a week. This is a crazy goal, but I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025