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• 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 / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  high school, computer science felt like a guiding torch while urban

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  how it ties everything together. This is a school that pushes you to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  ="118122" image2="118121" /]   6. carson beach last year, my high school

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  composition notebook filled with spelling practices from elementary school. The

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  in elementary school. Ah, the glory days.[/caption] The class is a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025