Blog
/ Admissions
AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!
’t bring homework - Forget about school and home and just let loose and
Search
Search Results
-
-
Blog / MIT Life
SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes
space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In -
Blog / Admissions
A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking
school reflect these qualities. Some of them are already in your -
Blog / MIT Life
Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story
those of you who are in high school. Want something? Go get it. You don -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness
In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little Orphan Annie. Tessie is, like Annie, a little orphan, but unlike Annie, she's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far -
Blog / Admissions
Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls
your high school years, but the truth is you'll be seeing the people on -
Blog / How to Human
3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here
makes me extremely happy—learning and playing at the coolest school in the -
Blog / Admissions
Nerd Camp tales from TDI
staff were experienced, local middle school teachers who helped out for -
Blog / Academics & Research
Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…
high school years I struggled through the class and the AP, But now I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.
from MIT and immediately went back to my old summer job from high school -
Blog / Academics & Research
A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!
I took four HASS classes this semester. What, stop looking at me like that. .______. I realized that I’m very capable of taking four HASS classes, but not capable of… -
Blog / Admissions
Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!
Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW (Campus Preview Weekend) at MIT. While at CPW I figured out which dorm I wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!
were active musicians in high school. No auditions are required. Much fun -
Blog / Events
CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.
about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My -
Blog / Academics & Research
My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH
it, illuminate? i'm awesome) the situation: Thanks, Yale film school -
Blog / MISTI
The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!
with my nearly-nonexistent memory of high school Spanish ("Puede Ud -
Blog / Academics & Research
Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.
service in high school marching band). I mean, it just never stops, does it -
Blog / Admissions
“I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…
receive an essay that states, "...and that's why Harvard is my dream school -
Blog / How to Food
My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.
with vegetables and tofu--I cook for myself a lot during the school year -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT
I took a leap this school year that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I ... workshops for middle/high school students. On our last day, the host staff