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• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled ... Three Day three! Today was super busy so I’m writing this before bed! It ... slack). Also, side note, it was -2 degrees this morning and my nostrils

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  earn money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation ... I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  . There are now 37 AP courses. My high school offered just 3: Calculus ... high schools that offered zero APs. Similarly, I had classmates who attended high schools that offered dozens of these courses, and, yes, some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work ... senior year of high school, saw that every blogger seemed to have at least ... before class.   Everyone is busy, but everyone understands that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  here. They tried so hard to present their university as offering ... said. “It helped me realize what a business we have become, the spin we ... : School, Study, SATs: No Wonder Teens Are Stressed Chelsea Halprin, a junior

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  surprises the people I meet, because I am constantly busy, and people expect ... it was covered more in high school history classes. 21M.301, Harmony ... poetry in high school,[/annotation] but haven't been had the creative

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this ... plushie I had won from a school fair years ago. And I knew instantly ... baddest guy in the college communications business. Of all the pictures I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  date rolled around, I would run to my car after school and speed (I mean ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping ... had found out that eight people from my high school had been accepted

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was ... of anything other than more school had never crossed their minds ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... I'm going to schools like MIT, I should probably not bypass any

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and ... Firm Handshake, Joke Telling, or Networking/Business Etiquette. Other ... classes earn a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in Charm. When I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  having busy parents and a lot of siblings. They taught us to bandage our ... broke my arm at school, and we didn’t go to the emergency room until ... : not the 1000-1500 degrees C of red-hot metal, but ~2400 degrees of white

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  most of what the studio above my old middle school had to offer, but at ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with ... take trapeze classes during school, usually after math. I'd never done

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... absorb the content to a greater degree. (I think I have taken enough HASSes ... engineering project since high school, and I think that would be a good skillset

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... the school. While prepping for the lesson, I went back and watched ... every time, it makes more and more sense to me. Because the school had a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and not for credit. I've been running between kickboxing classes, business ... .) Over the past two weeks, I've attended two different business seminar

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter ... receive free or reduced lunch at school Your family receives public ... thinking that we offer this application fee wavier but don't really want to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007