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• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  snowing, but the fact that I could take it every weekday during the school

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  , embrace it, and then let it go. This is your last semester of high school

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  included the Center for Children's Happiness (an orphanage and school for

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  schools that admitted them made the right decision; students who were not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had "tryouts": we took a shot at playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I’m finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I’ve spent the last 48…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  school, my dad never missed a meet and my mom volunteered at every home

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to be mainstream curiosities. Recently, someone from my high school threw

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  middle of high school, however, there was a point at which I kind of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  )Scholarship Row - a college fair with dozens of schools, including MIT, represented

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  school friend, and David, a fellow Dallas admit, at the airport! Minor

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  school now and spend Winter Break watching other people play Guitar Hero? I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  average stuck-in-grad-school grad student, as it so happens. I've come to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  manufacturing things. Not every high school has FIRST robotics, not every kid has

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  high school. Luckily, it became so unbearably warm that I awoke, just in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  parents and curfews and schedules and day planners and high school and work

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  didn't get to go to any when I was in high school, this was actually my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008