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• 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
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... summer internships. Once I had a few job offers for the fall, I re

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for labor ... thing to do," because after high school, don’t all good students go to ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... , thunderstorms, 98-degree days, followed by rain and a 40 degree temperature drop ... degrees and that things like ice cream runs are a necessity. My lab, being

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... is seriously paying off, and I better get my business suit out of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  machines, and then he started his own business. Blanco's inventions include ... 1959, the National Inventors Council offered $5,000 to anyone who could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... home, or because they're busy, what with families and significant others ... google calendar to my personal account though, or at least, the free/busy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  graduated with a course VI degree a year ago. I asked him why DeRon was so ... a school defined by numbers. Everything, from the buildings to the ... from the nation's premier science and technology school is leading the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009