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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... exciting ways if I took a year away from traditional schooling. Still not

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... levers. If you don’t want the hassle of owning a bike, MIT offers

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  degree temps they regularly weather. But the baby penguins were cute little ... spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has ... Students are non-degree students who take classes at MIT. You will apply
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes ... graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  -MIT adventures, I have less to offer you. But! I still know undergrads! I bumped ... issues to some extent (being the only girl on my high school robotics build ... applications. Anne Condon's talk on DNA programming offered an interesting way to

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts ... believes will negatively affect his chances of getting into a "good school ... also look at a different example. Mills performed well in high school

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  The school year has begun again. I’m glad to report that some things ... what it means for a day to feel like it’s NINETY DEGREES (ah yes ... lot of moments at MIT that remind me of how different this school is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  people"]75 degrees,[/annotation] so I took the opportunity to spend the ... here for it. Coming from a high school that was literally built to have [annotation note="I wish I was joking, but my school was built to match the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  given me my freshman year of high school; everybody had told me that ... eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... broke (A three-year-old Compaq I'd bought in high school, and a $140

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  ). Unless you kicked some serious butt in a crazily academic high school or ... are a bunch of different classes, each of varying degrees of difficulty

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... colors. Those subjects are precisely what they studied hard in high school ... missed over fifty days of school each year since fourth grade, and I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test ... high school, I got a 95 on my first 8.01 test after studying for like one ... and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  MIT, and it's definitely possible to love the school strongly and hate ... , the ring is turned over 180 degrees -- prior to graduation, the beaver ... , but I thought they were hyperbole until I went on my graduate school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  places students in schools abroad to teach short courses ... three semesters left at this school. I've been here long enough that when ... not.   When I was in elementary school,  a teacher once told me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  orientation at MIT in my freshman year, who ended up pursuing a degree in STEM ... school. Normally they’re really shocked that I go to MIT, but there was ... near my hometown. As a rising senior in high school, I was working a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering ... schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has ... stuff, it's natural to want to do cool stuff too. At some schools, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... dropped 30 degrees. T--h--i--r--t--y d--e--g--r--e--e--s. Up until this

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... application. I had a guidance counselor at school, but with over 300 students on ... to apply Early Decision to the second school I toured; that's where I

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019