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  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  after you're done with school. College will keep you so busy, and you ... a fake persona when school is already challenging enough. Unironic ... train to visit friends at other East Coast schools or a flight to another

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  you're a really funny kid with an optimism like nobody's business, but ... is kind of hard, especially in high school, because a lot of the time ... school can actually be pretty rewarding if you don't get sucked into the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . There are over 1,000 high school teams nationwide that compete in FIRST ... during my junior year of high school, and it was seriously awesome. But ... of students from several local high schools), but I decided to join

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  academia should look like and of who belongs in it. Once, in high school, I ... people to take me seriously. My school had chosen ten or so seniors to act ... math contests but had zero business experience and hated getting in front

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  see if I wanted to go to math graduate school. By that point, no math ... , given that I also passed the knowledge test back in high school yet failed ... yesterday I got boba and lunch with a friend from high school who now lives in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school ... ; and i oop   I took AP Physics I in high school, so I kind of knew

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  . One thing that struck me about high school, as I finished it off, was ... school without knowing any calc, and also from the amount of calc that 8 ... got into this class via some things I learned in high school quite a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... storyteller I possibly could be. High school was a period of full bloom for me ... to school—a twenty-minute walk that involved lots of long, grim

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  them, I got back together with my ex-girlfriend from high school. In ... honestly, overthinking has been my main problem since high school.  It is ... thought that high school was going to last forever. That there was never

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  and my brother are in the same after-school swim class. Sometimes when ... with? Good. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a tray ... thinner than I chop the beets. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and listen to people in this school, I'd eat and hang out with people in this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about ... this new school and you just feel really cool when you're like, "Hey guys ... the transition from high school to college much smoother and allows

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  is the medium of instruction" school. My school offers a very limited ... school? It's not like I've been living under a rock or anything, it's just that my school is not very active in these areas. For example, I only

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  student here: $300 per day. (Big clarification–MIT offers one of the most ... the excitement of living my high school dreams. But then I start back up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  school so it was really nice to be able to experience the great outdoors ... , though we were offered snacks by some other hikers who were sheltering with

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  high school has never hesitated to call me out on my bullshit, and I ... would read papers that seemed to offer brilliant observations about the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... recognize that if you’re a high school senior reading this, you’re probably

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  moleskine notebook since the beginning of junior year of high school, and now ... people in my life who have offered me referrals and to edit my stuff and to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  any time during the 2020 - 2021 school year was the boyfriend of our GRA ... was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022