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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... minutes. You get 1,000+ class options per semester, plus grad school classes ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in ... , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... offers to give me some money for breakfast or something, which was very ... . Luckily enough, the Logan wasn’t as busy as I was warned it would be the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  ’ve never felt that more than now. Having just graduated from school, I ... student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school, completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  this post so late? I was busy, okay."]November 23 and 24,[/annotation ... school students all over campus. It’s huge. Huge. The other really notable ... high school again, just so I could go to Splash and take classes. Some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned ... life even if one does fail out of school (and your interests are academic ... high school economics classes, and Michelle mentioned that she also hadn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... definitions of “well-qualified” and “top school” are subjective, but the point still remains. Getting rejected from a top school, particularly MIT, isn

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  : "Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school ... my school's community I've had plentiful opportunities to challenge ... "Economics" in my degree to tell you that. I consider myself ridiculously

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  conversation with my supervisor about grad school and grades and my future in the ... , and fell asleep. Friday evening I went to visit my high school friend ... was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  were valedictorians of their high school. Aha! MIT must highly value ... probably doing pretty well in high school. Additionally, we highly value ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  15']my own process of applying to grad school,[/annotation] where to be ... way you wanted. My first graduate school application came back on my ... academic offerings at MIT. But the two seniors in our group both said they

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  New Mexico at a six-week astrophysics program for High School students ... School in 2010. All summer, I obsessively checked the admissions page ... posts sounded a bit artificial. I then got very busy. This is the hardest

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , a department under MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social ... in Chapter 2 of The Business of Media Distribution. He notes that ... hype, subscriber shoutouts—all ways to offer digital feedback. More than

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  school or early college, far fewer students decide to 'take a shot' at ... middle school and high school, explored extracurriculars, and now attend ... -percent-Asian high school would express a similar sentiment. I know that I have close

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated ... extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , which he considered his dream school. A few weeks later, however, he was ... deposit, or another school halfway across the country where I'd been ... to one of my favorite high school teachers who had graduated from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  dream school. Like many of the current EA 2022s, I was excitedly making ... expressed in the following analogy. For me, high school was a lot like rowing ... marked on it - MIT, my dream school. As we all know, I did eventually make

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short ... prospective students - showing them what the school I love is like, and maybe ... staggering other array of readers ranging from my old grade school teachers to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be graduating come June. I have had all A's throughout high school except for last ... . I was too busy celebrating the New Year. ;) I hope you're still

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  College Confidential reaffirmed a lot of these beliefs in high school. If ... whether they have been accepted at a certain school or not.  I don ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020