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  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  orientation at MIT in my freshman year, who ended up pursuing a degree in STEM ... school. Normally they’re really shocked that I go to MIT, but there was ... near my hometown. As a rising senior in high school, I was working a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  -and-done type of person. I thought that, after about 16 years of school, there was no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out ... would go to graduate school (5 years down the line) but that it definitely

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  different states visiting different graduate schools, and realized that home ... class of cancer therapeutics worked. I’d say grad school at MIT is a ... school that none of my teachers in high school thought I should be going to

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering ... schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has ... stuff, it's natural to want to do cool stuff too. At some schools, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  school night at 3:00 am the following day? I planned most of the trip in ... high school, and also, see a total solar eclipse. The internet told me ... the surface temperature will rise to over a hundred degrees, cooking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  recall. I suppose some things don't change. Throughout high school, I ... made as a high school senior, it seems obvious, and I'm sure I would make ... selective school I was admitted to, and I was a stressed-out seventeen

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students ... entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... a lifetime ago: when I was applying to schools, there was a school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  my elementary school parking lot alone. Vienna by Billy Joel was on the ... less than 5. 3,689 were not offered admission. That's 24.46%. Those are ... applications to other schools. I completed their interviews. Listened to their

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... prestigious school. My eyes were set on a good, local university that would not ... difficult (and still is difficult), but I did it. And I called every school I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... know and love from all those other schools you've visited). However, when ... ; Michelle, do you remember?) year of high school, when my friend Michelle

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... whom to admit, but the final choice is yours -- which school is the best ... that you're choosing another school that's a better fit for you: thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  high school courses and colleges. McGee said he's happy to offer them any ... hours a week, like after school and things like that. I have to take my ... about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  high school junior and I have been aiming for MIT since I could remember ... honest, I have no idea. I played soccer in high school, and I never once ... start up as average (3.0 GPA) in high school and then improve as a (3

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  . i love teaching things (have taught at middle school math camps and ... important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring ... ’s often very hard to wrap your head intuitively around degree

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  school students from across the world will be competing at the Intel ... paper to trifold boards. What started off as a mandatory elementary school ... did science fair out of personal joy rather than school mandates. The

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... are you doing?" "Oh, a paper for my Art History class." "What school ... school classmate who I haven't seen in a year). That night, she told me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... Last Year of High School Magnifying Glass, which always makes things look ... these past three years - to start up a high school chapter of Amnesty

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  Jobs Paid Notetaker - A paid notetaker position was offered for both 6 ... is a pretty good opportunity when it gets offered, and it’s typically more likely to be offered for larger classes like 191 and 200, since the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  for graduate school. Which, to be clear, I deeply appreciate. It just ... . And yet, I think it's the most honest sentiment I can offer at this time ... REX events. I'm going to need to offer advice to incoming first years

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... dorm is renovated. The class, now labelled STS.051, will be offered this ... school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022