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  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... ’m truly the same person i was in middle school, maybe just changing

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  to the page. One instance of this happened in high school robotics ... sketching in the margins of museum maps, my school notes, napkins, anything I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  ! solid friend groups :D This fall, for the first time since high school ... for future stories into my time at school.  2023, let’s go!  

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  to deciding to go to grad school as well a month later i was talking ... that, if you’re done with high school, probably around 90% of the time

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  5 on AP Calculus BC in high school, so I was expecting to get credit ... : summer nights spent talking with Quinn, my friend from high school, staying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB ... first exam. She gets that familiar thrill like she did in high school, the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... psets or classes or grad school or jobs or anything – I eat, ski, sleep

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  performing well in school." -Joey Rafidi “Whatever happens today is not the ... incredibly difficult school is a necessary part of the character of this campus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  highlights of western music. My senior year of high school, one of my favorite ... graduate school in astrophysics, and realize that the opportunity to become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Technology launching a nationwide high school science camp series as a part of ... (EC). This had been my dream since junior year of high school, when my

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  the third quarter of my sophomore year of high school working on MIT ... caught another cab to amazon, where I met up with a friend from school to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... public inner-city high school, slagged through hours upon hours of the most

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  school student and want to go to MIT. Tell me how to get in.” I just write ... of each other as well. This is not a local community school, there are

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

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  all year and he decides now, with two weeks of school left (at that ... -distance physical activity - I ran cross country in high school and always found it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  -hour flight, during which I met a matriculating Harvard Medical School student ... % of premed undergrads get into med school :-). I am very happy to say

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  , that's almost as much time as I spent in class in high school! Hopefully ... -explain everything just for your benefit. Unlike high school, homework really is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women ... school and meeting dozens of Panhellenic women, it became blatantly obvious

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and ... /c I've been pretty involved with my church throughout high school. And I

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  engineering major at a little school called rose-hulman institute of technology ... 've loved it throughout the rest of school. Good luck with that pset! It looks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with minimal consequences. And every year, we celebrate this fact with a whole

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025