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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  (which I found to be one of few high school classes that was actually ... proud I was of our work in the car ride to school. She told me that we ... importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  pursue two years of research in high school, and I loved it. I loved it so ... the whole history of each school you apply to, I think it helps to at ... you've finalized your list of schools - the earlier the better. Stay

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  My oldest son graduated from high school this past weekend and we ... made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... celebration for all of MIT (and all of Cambridge practically) on Killian Court

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  -length weekend, if you don't have Monday off). I know that fall of senior year can be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back in the forgotten mists of 2004, I was editing the newspaper, the lead

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  most of the month of April thinking about these Ivy League schools. But ... five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... mental health of students? In addition, does MIT's tough grading system

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  of Math & Science Sacramento, CASaturday, September 9, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.Mira Loma High School Cafeteria San Jose, CASunday, September 10, 2006 at 7 ... , September 13, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.Acalanes High School Salt Lake City, UTTuesday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of ... MIT was the first school that popped up. And they'd never heard of it ... Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  ”, my life would change forever. People say that this type of media, a ... , heavens forbid, the MIT Admissions Blogs, but cases of nonfiction books ... illustrations of the common feral pigeon on the page. I’d never realized the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  lists of ivy league schools they were interviewing at and how busy they ... built. I have no regrets. And yet in the worst part of my med school ... am also so exhausted. On Learning  The insecurities of the med school

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  . All of my friends from high school, and the friends I made through ... was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated ... graduated from high school, i wasn’t really that sad either, because i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  foul chemicals you do not know the name of. They make the metal that you ... flaws in the designs. Someone else, perhaps as sleepless as yourself ... ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  firm designed for hardware startups. Two out of three of the founders got ... few hours, woke up, rolled out of bed, splashed my face with cold water ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  ergonomic--Scandinavian design for the win!--and I have a great view out of my ... It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone ... for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and ... friend let me borrow one of their chargers, which didn't really work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in ... comfortable with the big/little dynamics in some of my social groups, enjoying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  vision. LTI seeks to introduce the concept of leadership to high school ... One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in September. I knew that this transition would be challenging. Juggling all of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025