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• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of ... , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . I soon forgot about my sorrows because of how much I loved my school ... thriving at my state school (Purdue!!) and have found a community of bright ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... for high school!!!!!!shiftone"; remember, I was in your place about two ... high school twenty miles away from home. I have perspective. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to five hours to do anything I please. The lack of social distractions make

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  I will skip, except to note that one of the proposed designs for the ... newspapers will spin you a cybertastically-juiceless tale of a bleach ... notice as a truckload of detonated TNT, of a Polaroid press conference

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... variety of humanities classes.  Don’t get me wrong, MIT has its share of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  experiences i had. much of my high school experience (junior year in particular ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... we do."]unprecedented number of applications[/annotation] over the last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did ... somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... 't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  communications. I offered the idea to make our own MIT version of Chilled ... with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of a time as any to save this post from the crowded purgatory of [annotation note

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , attended the dinner and offered words of introduction. He has been a member ... community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being ... that about 30% of us were going to be kicked out of the class by the end

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  couple years ago, maybe my sophomore year of high school, my mom told me ... of my senior year of high school, I remember trying to figure out where ... tell him it's a competitive school, that the possibility of me getting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  they held some sort of leadership position in high school. Out of a list ... this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... than the identical role in high school. It’s a delicate balance of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  . Throughout my entire high school career, I always considered myself a pretty average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs and extracurricular activities, I got involved within my school and my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... the math department, there are four versions of one class known as real analysis: 18.100A, 18.100B, 18.100P, and 18.100Q. A few things of note: i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an ... hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  other schools and are interested in other things and are still a lot of ... than a state school, and of course a talk by Questbridge Co-founder Dr ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011