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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  degree of instructor interaction; some really great professors (J. King, T ... in high school and I think the Romans are ridiculous and really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  sort of leadership position. (Another note: Medical schools have space ... it is true to a certain degree. Life is full of opportunity costs

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their ... were NOT indeed the whims of a giggling school girl and the only two

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  morning! Ridiculous grad school stuff I got my official acceptance letters ... , required for a biology degree) does require calculus knowledge. 2. Sam T

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  the pipe. The rest of it looked like something in a elementary school ... Little Dome in ten-degree weather, or making the information kiosk play a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  --his high school math teacher dated Amber Brkich. That was kind of exciting ... orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  and pick up random stuff. Somehow that led her to a degree in Course XVI ... and found a postcard from my beloved high school friend Shana telling me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  school kids in the area who were participating in an initiative called "Sandhya Gurukulam" - or "Evening School." It's essentially an after-school ... back to their respective communities and host these after-school programs

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  felt like I couldn't control was my high school and honestly....... It terrified me. When I looked at students that got into schools like MIT I felt ... students that went to prestigious high schools with award winning math and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is ... talk about... Grad school admissions: Joanie and Chris wanted to know about graduate school admissions. I will make the disclaimer that all I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  middle or high schools. For me, this means appearing at Cambridge Community Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... going (back) to public school I went to an evangelical Christian school

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  to the castle. The businesses and apartments were medieval style brick ... these places in my middle school history textbooks, but seeing the ... fruit offerings at temples. There were turtle shells, carbonized remains

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  other schools? (Question submitted by Barbie D. '17) If you have already ... MITted, make it a point to check out the resources that MIT has to offer. Perhaps ... was extremely busy studying during the weekend, so I spend the weekend

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  mit is sunny and then rainy and then sunny again -   two weeks ago i was leaving seattle, thinking about summertime and trying not to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... new school year, I saw V for Vendetta last night at the LSC (MIT's very ... I don't mind. Anyway, how did everyone's first day of school go

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The ... Sleep Looking back, I definitely did not get enough sleep in high school ... . RELAX. This is your last year of high school. Enjoy it! Definitely don

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  drag you out naked). Unlike most other boarding schools in the country ... main buildings that made up our school. One end of the hall had a large ... felt (this was a school that limited us to two buildings all year long

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... name. 8th grade came, went, and then it was time for high school. As much

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... degrees clockwise to face the Harvard bridge, before Kate’s lack of three ... degrees counterclockwise to face Boston. And repeat. After a while of this

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010