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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  Imagine: you arrive on campus. It’s awesome. Breathtaking. Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  dark. With that in mind, along with the fact that many other schools had

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  Hello Interwebz! Our campus is swarming with high school students and free food. It's all very exciting. Everyone is very excited! Ahhh! I'm excited too! In fact, this is also my first CPW ever. I did not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  the old-school electrical folks. Lastly, the Manufacturing lead comes

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  the world in other ways. Kristine is in med school now, so if humankind

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  craziness season begins for you poor juniors in high school (subject tests and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  , some of my old journals (if I could tell my high-school self one thing

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  once in Albuquerque the summer after I graduated from high school (I lost

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  This school year was pretty terrible.  I don't think there is an easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called Sophomore Slump. My second semester was a little better.  I took classes that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  high-school level. Once you’ve taken your GIRs, you’ll know all the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  up and try everything. :) You've earned it! 4) CPW is still school for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking habits, suppressed middle school memories of having my roller backpack kicked around, or watching Up in the Air too many times. Anyways, every

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  later, I went to my high school where Pi Day was being celebrated. I spoke

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  things (like FIRST robotics or that sort of thing) in high school, which

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  1 would be a high school cafeteria burger and 5 would be an In

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  school was and still is around 85% Asian), but Nightmarket was so well put

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  their letters must be on school letterhead and signed by them to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  school. I know I’ve spent my fair share of time in the basement study room

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013