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  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  new students last September, but while my former school friends enjoyed ... undergraduates I know have already started their own businesses. At MIT a great ... alcohol poisoning weeks after arriving at college. Schools in America have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  reason. David, my freshman year roommate, was a Mexican who went to school ... high school Spanish day by day, and all I had really known to begin with ... semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels, particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  at any school with or without the tools at least here i'm not alone m ... into a profitable business, build a factory, etc and the fisherman is ... high school when i didn’t stop to think “am i enjoying what i’m doing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  th graders, freshmen in high school aren’t friends with too many ... Colorado in some way.* Being able to finally work in a business environment ... learn in school. You do. Okay, that should probably come with a caveat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  come from; for example, your family, clubs, school, community, city, or ... student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... blog before we started dating), who goes to UCSF med school. (We're also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest ... afternoon: a pulsar class for parents, and a pulsar class for middle school kids. The next afternoon, I taught a pulsar class for high school kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  school right now, otherwise I would ask him--is this computer terminology ... technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  slowly, but surely, I was working towards completing my degrees. So, this ... , but I was busy and tired, and, simultaneously, I found myself becoming ... continue with the math part of my degree. At the very least, I knew 18

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  other Schools at the Institute (which later published reports with almost ... the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT showed further ... female faculty in the School of Science rose from 8% to 19% The MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  considerate - you can in principle walk through busy hallways like the infinite ... learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... upper body tilts by maybe 5 or 10 degrees when i’m trying to walk quickly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  included education, small business and entrepreneurship, national security ... mental image of the very hard-working but very busy person I will be ... -and-forth exchanges are much more memorable than one-way spiels. Offer to serve as a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  beings. I had never even pictured the school so empty! My grandpa always ... Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long ... a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  in the Sloan Business School"]15.[/annotation] Also Harry's brother ... ="Alan: also Cameron gets a special shoutout because she went to my high school ... summer before my freshman year of high school, 2014. Christian: In fifth

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  , the two posted up in the business room with their eyes glued to their ... of the electromagnet used to magnetize them. Naturally, I offered to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not ... there for several minutes while they clank the heart around. I offer to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  , and a few places to buy food."]Stud[/annotation] because it’s too busy ... '[/annotation]. Someone offers to bring me the ladder so I can get off rope, but I refuse to

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  the lab at 2 am, busy as ever. Anyway, here’s our robot doing it’s thing ... students were always happy to offer solutions and advice.  As it goes in most

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ... Chemical Science. It was risky business, a class for people with a Chemistry

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014