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• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact ... ways, whether it's school troubles or romantic troubles or what ... haved like 30 celsius degrees all over the year and I must admit I do not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and ... Science' degree?" Yes, at the undergrad level. If you major in Literature ... your opinion is about the school and how do you spend your free time

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  weekend for Patriots' Day, and all the other schools in the area Commence ... week (that's 6 hours per school day) expected time commitment for a ... am likely applying for grad school and should not be spending 6 hours

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  to go to graduate school, and the rest is history. That anecdote ... school in astronomy. As a result, the contents of the binders on my ... a year into grad school, but my impression is that an all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  miss Mikey, who has left us to attend grad school at the university down ... taken their school's science club to nationals. And I've never done any of ... for graduate school) or find research opportunities or basically show

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... school students, I decided that this anecdote would pair well with an ... nuclear engineers) who aren't coming right out of high school. That being

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  about 1,000 degrees, which I would have to deal with for the next month or ... , dark hair. He looked too busy for me to bother him. At this point, we

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  understanding. It seems to be busy computing something else when we’re not ... my degrees (bachelor’s and master’s) when I finish my master’s in 2016

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  friends is justified (people are less busy than during the semester, and ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... ="The MIT Outing Club runs a winter school every IAP where people go on lots

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... …"]friends.[/annotation] During lunch, or after school, at Quiz Bowl practice, I'd find those ... puzzling at the end of eighth grade, but as high school dug its claws into me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... love supporting local businesses! I decided on making a two piece wrap ... middle school and it's incredible that we both ended up at MIT :3. photo by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of ... I enjoy outside of school. Still, these couldn't suffice for social ... ." Everything was busy, stress was my middle name, and ideas were hazy. There

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  to leave a legacy" sense, but how to do my best to leave the school ... opportunities. I decided to go to grad school, so this upcoming semester, I want ... empowering to give my money to huge business conglomerates that thrive on said

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms ... , school, and everything in between. Even after pairing down my activities ... 'm still stressed and busy, still without enough time to do it all, to keep

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street ... , took a gap year after high school when his family moved here. Asked me ... suffocating suburbs we moved to for the school districts, where there was little

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  was founded in 1855 it was called the Farmers' High School of ... start a business. There are huge community-centered, community-run events ... separated elementary schools and advance to two geographically separated

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  Holland together). Stay tuned and I'm trying to be less busy! =p --- Okay ... ). I transferred to an international school in the middle of elementary school, and my parents were really worried that my English was not up to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  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