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  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming ... much time with my friends as possible before 1) we get too busy for each

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we ... , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... by geographic location, company, graduation date, course, degree ... who ultimately offered me jobs. In fact, I found my current job using

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  the final steps in the long journey that is the medical school ... Environmental Engineering degree), 1-C (Civil Engineering), and 1-E (Environmental ... Mechanical Engineering was pretty easy. I thought that an undergraduate degree

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  It's spring break here at MIT and I'm busy with thesis work. I want ... . Doesn't matter if you're a high school student, a college graduate, an 82 ... found helpful in high school though was reading through the admissions

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  supporter of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. She has an economics degree from Princeton, a business degree from the MIT Sloan School, and an M.Div from Meadville Lombard Theological School. Kristy Carpenter (Alutiiq

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  scholarship with a stipend! Woo! My high school offered 8 AP classes, and I ... high school experience was so far removed from what most people judge to ... more importantly, my freshman year in high school I briefly dated a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  , but then taught economics at Harvard Business School. Finally, after a ... never heard of an international science olympiad. My high school wasn ... as a really cool thing. Being at MIT meant that I was going to school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  , personalities, and backgrounds that MIT offers. One can argue that the people as a ... than people from other schools. smart technically passionate respect for ... traits: go deep/intense on projects (+), too overwhelmed/busy to care about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... ), you need something to keep them busy. Now, as Hannah is demonstrating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  schools around the world. The Residential MITx platform offers students ... weekends on campus: Splash and Spark. Splash is a weekend for high school ... collection of short classroom labs offered in MIT introductory mechanical

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction ... school unless he or she has verified it with a primary source. Serving as ... 't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  reception You really have been busy during the school year on campus. What ... interview. I know that you are really busy and involved in a bunch of things ... attended Francis Polytechnic High School , which is a public school in Sun

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  's business, financial and retail capital and the largest city in the state," as ... sometime out of my incredibly busy schedule to hang out with Joe and ... school. Every single person in Maine is apparently much better than I am at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  perspiration. I am probably not made for temperatures higher than eighty degrees ... ), which is a weekly drawing class offered through the MIT Student Art ... school year. So far, I've read Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree that I wouldn't have wanted to switch high schools, since leaving it at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  students to selective STEM degree programs is essential to achieve these ... science. As such, American businesses at the forefront of innovation in STEM ... selecting the students who will be offered admission, MIT does not use any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  people have already had lab experience in high school, how on earth will I ... universities, the degree to which labs here are open to discussion and the ... , that includes inexperienced freshmen with little more to offer than

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  .I.-assisted writing. CMS/W is where I did my grad degree, and also occasionally teach ... and Media Education,” offers a short human-authored introduction and ... instructor should offer much better explanatory help to a student. But current

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school ... any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER annoying, because it's alphabetical by school rather than what is to me the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005