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  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to offer guidance, I am sorry to say that I don't always give the best ... , elementary school) whose child has known for a couple of years that MIT is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  ), helping with public facility projects like schools - which is a hugeeeee ... ...and everything distinctively-Chinese China will have to offer. But as I anticipate

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  It's been nearly three months since I graduated MIT. With the freshman class starting school tomorrow, it's strange to think that I won ... an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  't qualified for MIT, or that your myriad achievements in high school weren ... everyone here at MIT. When we say we wish we could have offered you admission

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  offered the explanation of his obsession with The Simpsons. I dare you to ... makes MIT one of the best schools ever. -:-

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a ... without using their robot. They offered to let you join their team and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  pick through my junk mail. All senior year I got scholarship offers for ... 's Who Among American High School Students, 2005/2006". Tonight, though

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  her high school, Stuyvesant, and on the way there she pointed out the ... garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  offered the position. Her mentor, Russell Tedrake, was an MIT Computer ... . She would like to eventually go to graduate school to pursue

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  ) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... was busy, sure, but it wasn't a disaster. Practice working harder ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  research in high school. I hope, though, that you're doing the research ... previous blog entry, and I was wondering if you guys offered Martial Arts ... come in." MIT offers dozens and dozens of Physical Education courses each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  . I know I’ve changed; being away from school, I notice that I interact ... because sometimes you just gotta do stuff that sucks. Getting my degree will ... school uniform, B) live on my own, and C) have a job, I can finally fulfill

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  of school for a loooong time. And I do, and I did, and I took a break ... this school before. And even as a recent alumna, they're kind of a vague ... school were the most valuable things to come out of it. The advanced, under

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... college apps. Mentally, I had long since left high school behind and my ... students) high school was a relatively straight path. I knew I was going to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... ’t really remember why, but I took it. In high school, I took four practice ... school, and my mother and I spent even more hours on even more Saturdays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  about IAP and Charm School (a wonderful establishment still in existence ... School of Architecture. For a minor, I may choose either CMS - Comparative ... offer student discounts (full list here). Venues also often have Student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  only one that offered free food.The 5.111 staff would periodically invite ... a seminar (so it was the only seminar to offer food).It was good to ... to law school. But it's cool, since he was also a TA for this class

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... like science? You do well in school? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE WHO APPLIES TO

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  pretty well in high school calc or physics, you may want to get the credit ... situation or is able to offer relevant advice or at the very least just guide ... learned physics since it pretty much sucks at my high school. So what's your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006