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• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  school is all I was focusing on? But the next round will be better, right ... my ability to get into grad school. About how I could totally recover

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Harvard Medical School. I work with a Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Med School research team that investigates the reproductive health of sexual ... resume and interview shoes, and decided on the one grad school I want to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  defined by the school you attend.  “Reference Frames ... it if you get in, and you're not 100% sure this is the right school ... find the perfect fit. If not, try again. “Dear High School

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  E. '16. Dan and I went to high school together, and now live in ... regularly used those tricks through high school to solve equations in parallel ... researching the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 in high school, Sutro Baths this

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my ... Doom? When I was in middle and high school, my parents and I used to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  still co-teaching a cosmology class for High School students on Saturday ... crunch (everything at this school runs on a huge time crunch, and the ... remembered a hiking trip during High School, when the leader told us that to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  's also involved in WiSE, which pairs MIT students with high school girls in ... high school kids. If that's not cool enough, she's UROPing in the Space ... : Since you got here? Ben: Yes. Me: Did you do any fencing in high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  'm taking is probably: PRE.MED - Introduction to the Medical School Interview - Fridays I applied to medical schools this summer, and now I'm starting to ... myself) 8. things i wish i knew in high school about college 9. obligatory

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  didn't even have eight hours of class in one day during high school, lol ... Environmental Science in 60 hours during my senior year of high school ... school, since the two years past then has generally been lectures with 100

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  into grad school right away, because man, living on a college campus puts ... about problems I had to overcome on my high school field hockey team. I ... school still playing junior varsity. Coach Bower called my name. I turned

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  that they think that I, as a representative of a school they presumably ... other qualified high school students.  Thus, you should not want to appear ... overborne, and when applying to an unimaginably competitive school, why would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  band in high school (Charles A. Sprague High School, what now, we won a ... High School and everybody LOVED it. Hearing the Boston Pops play it was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  gave up in high school because I felt insecure, things which I couldn ... being at the top of your class, or your school, or your country, it’s easy

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  'm glad I don't go to school near my hometown, I feel a certain air of ... school, but at least those people know what they're choosing. It feels more

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  at MIT for rising high school seniors. During the program, students ... known me since elementary school. How could six weeks with total strangers

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  school. It was part of an anthology assigned in English class. That single ... encountered it in high school, or if it struck a deep, already-existing chord

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  especially in school you don't have real feedback loops on your learning, or at

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  point! i had been scared at the thought of graduate school and doing ... , although it feels so scary to think about graduate school, i am also very

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who have been reading chess books since grade school and have numerous ... embarrassment of grade-school Shorna straight from my past. I mentally chastised

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023