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• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  school while taking your temperature. Here? The best you've got is a nice ... sleet, when it's -20 degrees outside. Cars, with their beautiful heated

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... “Exploring Science and Engineering” essay competition open to all high school ... , We are pleased to invite all high school students to participate in two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... to my school once to give a lecture, and I could totally tell that ... ? But what makes this old man think of school today? Well, I've been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  2020: Ten years since high school What is your name? Lydia ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I ... Saturday school with my favorite math teacher. I learned that authority

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  swear) for eight years at a time, but finals were busy, and summer came and that's been busy too, and, well.. it's not you, it's me. Honest

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  busy time! Most of us are very behind on email, phone calls, etc ... Jenny and I listened to while conducting important admissions business

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  's Habitat for Humanity group Like Elyse, Christi is busy busy; one of her

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  schools offer more limited coursework, or the students are not tracked in ... . We had all sorts of different schooling systems, hybrid, online ... for a year and then switching back into a traditional school. People

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  peeking into my closet might even think I represent the school in some way ... morning in high school, and I’m fairly certain sophomore high school me ... school, I was fairly certain I would never be a CS major… ha… ha. I had a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• 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
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

   materials from your school counselor (typically including your transcript, a school ... submitted through your school’s preferred system, such as Parchment, Naviance ... additional documents (prepared letters, school profiles, transcripts, etc
• 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