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• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  -degree dew point and a 101-degree heat index. Mitra once said that when she ... school friend Shana is spending the next year in France and Cameroon and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... in high school, and it’s a field I feel rather invested in. I love just ... international relations class during my senior year of high school because I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  —everything from fact sheets, keynote presentations, business cards, advertisements ... "apply" section, which offers a related blog of encouragement from The ... , these web mockups offer a rare example of work I’ve made intentionally

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... ="everything except writing Haikyuu! fanfiction, that is"]high school hobbies ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  team once I get back in town and IAP starts - Visit my old high school ... school? I went to a very rural, very public school in the middle of nowhere. My school graduate only about 60% of its students; most people end up

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  and Hult Intl Business School Boston into tight spaces. It isn't really ... and stored the results on Google Sheets. Out of the 45 schools listed, I ... how specific the school is about their mascot, I either got a specific

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  open to the public (I think you actually need business credentials or ... future employment. I've often thought that grad school is the only possible ... more intriguing to me than my bio classes. I don't know if grad school is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  attends LG Technical School (as in, LG the Korean mobile phone company) in ... ’d be a perfect fit for MIT and lots of other build-y culture nerd schools ... good, actually, that at 21, he has his own small business fixing other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  nearest grocery store. There’s a gas station, two schools, and a cluster of ... Challenge. The high school I'm working at is 100% Navajo, and has a ... weeks. She told me that the kids are currently busy chopping wood to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  . Looking at their list of currently sponsored schools, I don't think they ... playing for EC had played badminton in high school, and mine had won the ... through high school without sports, I was on tennis, badminton, and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  summer between junior and senior year of high school as a carousel operator ... school year, and then worked the summer between high school and college. I ... would prevent me from going broke, but what? I was already so busy, how

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  for grad school. That would have made this whole decision business a lot ... awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at my high school was pretty sweet too, except in a different way, because

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching ... reprimanded for said freaking by the school guidance counselor or driver's ed ... , except that there was a high school prom there or something, but that didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  something that you, your school, your parents, and your guidance counselor can ... reasons why I chose MIT was it was the first school I visited where my ... ), don't ask about your IQ, and SAT scores are so high school. Finally, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school doesn't even offer AP courses. Are APs valued higher than IB courses for ... cause us to take back our offer of admission, but slipping too much could

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  - the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree ... "selective" schools aren't looking for people like me.   I just got back from an admission's conference that had all of the most selective schools

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  after that weekend, I was off to South Korea - business class! It was so ... business class tickets for employees who are going on company business trips ... , and he was just as excited to be in business class as I was. We talked

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  worse. States and schools shut down across the country. Federal “stay ... graduate school, and more. I talk with two professors who mention that MIT ... where nearly 1300 middle school students from all around the country take

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... school); I was an American citizen, uncommon at my Canadian high school. I ... dumped on by the jerks in my high school class. So whenever I was asked, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019