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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  scheduling eating and cooking within my busy schedule, and there are no more days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... because I was too busy wiping away tears and trying to convince myself I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... 's Educational Studies Program (ESP) I love teaching. In High School, I did a lot ... taught an eight-week introductory cosmology class, for High School students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  perfume. Hint: These books exist because people at name-brand schools ... the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... essays when I applied to graduate school. Consider, for example, Gotera

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student activities can I do?

  You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your own "thing" at MIT! Check out Campus & Student Activities to see what's going on around campus, or check out a list of active groups from
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  The transfer application costs $75. Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... playdate filled me with unbearable dread. When I got into middle school, I ... school hit, social media was the language every girl at my new school spoke

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  room has done an acid-base titration as "research" in high school. Almost ... between high school and MIT. I'm hopeful that after this successful panel ... describing the mission of MIT. "Every school has a different mission on Earth

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  course. The highest math my high school offers is Calc BC and the calc ... problem w/ my physics course. The highest my school offers is just regular ... your secondary school report explain it to us. Either way would be fine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  I knew there was more—I mean, after all, I’d been so busy—but nothing ... got an offer? Up until that moment, nothing was set, everything was ... new job in a few weeks. I took the offer. I told some teammates. I told

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... -degree sauna into a 36-degree river. So, I hope you don't mind me writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  actress United Nations! sock designer teacher at HTHS (my high school ... signle other person there was in business attire. Yeah, it had totally ... to Charm School. How to Dress Yourself 101. Or something. This is what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for ... continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... thing to do," because after high school, don’t all good students go to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  earn money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation ... ," because after high school, don’t all good students go to college? And ... , instead of just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  " type system like at many other schools, where you pay for meals and if ... believes that schools should be up front about their pluses and their minuses ... school), MIT does have 3 Pulitzer Prize winners on staff, and 3 of our 13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... sophomore year of high school, I took this writing class called English 1A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... city I love at the school I love. Come this time next year, I probably

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  from some degree of "regression." there's something about going back to ... redownloaded the Attack on Titan fan game that i'd play every day after school in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022