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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  school in terms of cross-admits with MIT. If you apply to both and get ... supplemental educational opportunities to high/middle school students in the Boston area through offering educational programs taught by MIT undergrads

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  academically. AP classes were abundant - the school offered somewhere around 30 ... high school of 2,000+, graduating class of 620, class sizes of about 20 ... miles to school and back, uphill, BOTH WAYS. And drop and give me 20 every

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• 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 / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  school night at 3:00 am the following day? I planned most of the trip in ... high school, and also, see a total solar eclipse. The internet told me ... the surface temperature will rise to over a hundred degrees, cooking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• 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 / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  recall. I suppose some things don't change. Throughout high school, I ... made as a high school senior, it seems obvious, and I'm sure I would make ... selective school I was admitted to, and I was a stressed-out seventeen

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students ... entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... a lifetime ago: when I was applying to schools, there was a school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  my elementary school parking lot alone. Vienna by Billy Joel was on the ... less than 5. 3,689 were not offered admission. That's 24.46%. Those are ... applications to other schools. I completed their interviews. Listened to their

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... know and love from all those other schools you've visited). However, when ... ; Michelle, do you remember?) year of high school, when my friend Michelle

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... whom to admit, but the final choice is yours -- which school is the best ... that you're choosing another school that's a better fit for you: thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  high school courses and colleges. McGee said he's happy to offer them any ... hours a week, like after school and things like that. I have to take my ... about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005