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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street ... , took a gap year after high school when his family moved here. Asked me ... suffocating suburbs we moved to for the school districts, where there was little

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  was founded in 1855 it was called the Farmers' High School of ... start a business. There are huge community-centered, community-run events ... separated elementary schools and advance to two geographically separated

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  Holland together). Stay tuned and I'm trying to be less busy! =p --- Okay ... ). I transferred to an international school in the middle of elementary school, and my parents were really worried that my English was not up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  new students last September, but while my former school friends enjoyed ... undergraduates I know have already started their own businesses. At MIT a great ... alcohol poisoning weeks after arriving at college. Schools in America have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy ... to some degree. So...I've only been through the clusterfuck that is ... 're intended for Harvard Grad School students. Do you want a house or an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  Grad School"]grad school,[/annotation] but I've been feeling distinctly ... established aesthetic. VCRs Rotated 90 Degrees Clockwise [caption id ... seniors in high school are familiar with this technology, but really the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  cofounders of MakeSchool (his partner, Jeremy, is also on extended leave from MIT to help start the school), which aims to be an alternative to the ... mostly upperclassmen in high school, try to understand who they are in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  was rough. Throughout elementary and middle school, I learned a few ... impression...since then and until high school, I had dreamt of building cool ... robotics over band in high school and ultimately wind up here looking to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... on a graduate school visit and asked Prof. Jill Knapp (his wife) where ... behind the metal monstrosity. “This is Anna Ho. She’s on a graduate school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact ... ways, whether it's school troubles or romantic troubles or what ... haved like 30 celsius degrees all over the year and I must admit I do not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and ... Science' degree?" Yes, at the undergrad level. If you major in Literature ... your opinion is about the school and how do you spend your free time

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  th graders, freshmen in high school aren’t friends with too many ... Colorado in some way.* Being able to finally work in a business environment ... learn in school. You do. Okay, that should probably come with a caveat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or ... student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... blog before we started dating), who goes to UCSF med school. (We're also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest ... afternoon: a pulsar class for parents, and a pulsar class for middle school kids. The next afternoon, I taught a pulsar class for high school kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  school right now, otherwise I would ask him--is this computer terminology ... technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  understanding. It seems to be busy computing something else when we’re not ... my degrees (bachelor’s and master’s) when I finish my master’s in 2016

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  beings. I had never even pictured the school so empty! My grandpa always ... Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long ... a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  included education, small business and entrepreneurship, national security ... mental image of the very hard-working but very busy person I will be ... -and-forth exchanges are much more memorable than one-way spiels. Offer to serve as a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  other Schools at the Institute (which later published reports with almost ... the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT showed further ... female faculty in the School of Science rose from 8% to 19% The MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or