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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  schools, giving presentations, campus tours, sending brochures and emails...all in hopes that they'll apply to our school. We wait in anticipation to ... admission offers to. (If you think waiting for a handful of college decisions

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... conner...my god, is she a beauty. from b to shining c, burton conner offers ... about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli ... between MIT, a state-school that is giving you nearly a free ride, an Ivy League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... Person quite yet - jumped straight from undergrad into med school. Now, I ... of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  the word to your favorite underclassmen. The three high school summer ... deadlines coming up quickly. All three are open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps ... addressed to the Henry County High School senior. Once Gillespie got over his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... taus involved). My high school used to have a huge festival in the ... did you do for fun in high school? How did these things define who you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  are in your classes? Your clubs? From your high school or from your high school activities? If you were to cross off all of the people on your list ... busy MIT is it can be really hard to meet people any other way.  So

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  school but turned out to be a massive disappointment. You’re too lazy, too ... sheer delusion of your dreams. Release an album? Get a degree? Get a UROP ... family business when you’re not doing the internship You’re trying to

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  parachute and we had to cutaway and deploy our reserve, I was too busy being ... wrists, back off, spin 360 degrees, do a front flip, and then pull while ... , remember, during MIT and even after MIT, you aren't in high school anymore

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  didn't for a few days. That's because I actually got busy with my UROP ... graduate of Hamden High School, #6 in my class, good grades fine scores ... dropped from 65 to 27 degrees in the broad day. Hiking around up there was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  friend from their high school, or even an acquaintance from Science Bowl ... high school. I grabbed some snacks from the plastic, gray foldable table ... ) refers to several programs that offer students the opportunity to do

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  computer programming in high school, and I knew the next logical step would ... top CS school in the world. And yet, when I took 6.1010 (fundamentals of ... petition 3.033 to count toward my degree! Of course, this isn’t to say that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  M.Eng that gives you both a bachelor's and master's degree in five ... different classes offered and I really want to dabble in video game design and ... school, I shied away from so many things I was interested in because I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens ... superior and more rigorous to the so-called "soft sciences." MIT's school of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  Institvte is a story about a school, its architecture and environment. Most of ... kickstarter will be successful or not. But to some degree that's beside the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  . Like, I had walking pneumonia at least twice in high school, have managed ... , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  Name: Mollie Burgoon Hometown: Pickerington, Ohio (a two-horse town near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... time to apply to graduate school. Favorite MIT event: Rush! Free food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  high school, Malox and Jinkrod (Not their real names. Adam's dad ... off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005