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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you've been taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  high school. Or a brain-teaser: "If a bear in Yosemite and one in Alaska

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  have any questions about anything I mentioned; Yay school!

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  in elementary school terms, when you were choosing teams for dodgeball

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  start feeling restless and just itch to draw. Back home, my school supply

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  ,” those who’ve never experienced my approach to school before might say

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  lectures on mitosis upteen times in high school. This was definitely the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT.” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  et Manus, our school's motto, which means "mind and hand." If learning

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  first papaya on the trip. A Sibol (basically elementary) School in a GK

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  high school I was one of those kids who, if I applied myself, succeeded

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  editorial in the high school or town newspaper, etc. You may send these to us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  schools in the Bahamas which are themselves named after prominent Bahamian

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  school seems rather, um, boring in comparison [understatement alert

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  school, take it by the horns. Carve out a niche for yourself, join clubs

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  because I actually was an XXL, but it was like wearing pajamas to school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010