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  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  into the cringefest that is my writing from senior year of high school ... , here I am, headed towards one of the biggest changes life has to offer ... year for me. It marks the year of my transition from high school security

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  I feel less guilty publishing this during IAP since IAP is designed to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , it do be bad now. This form (both of its parts) has a lot of 90 degree ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... (tennis)"]organized sports teams/clubs.[/annotation] This hope of exploring

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In the last three, almost four years, I ... Killian or the design school backyard. I hold these experiences so close to ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... advantage of the well-equipped Z Center. Benefit of going to a nerd school ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  international relations class during my senior year of high school because I ... engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate ... AIAA Design/Build/Fly competition. The competition involves designing ... learn and practice some or all of the following: lightweight composite
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I ... – no matter what school we go to, we have the incredible privilege of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school junior. Pounds will graduate from Crystal Lake South High School in June ... LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of ... advantage of one of the best opportunities MIT has to offer. You won’t regret ... her for life outside of the MIT bubble. I love hearing other students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  this year Kevin, a friend from my high school, is like many of you -- e ... volume of work most high school seniors get themselves into -- e.g. the ... -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... tasked with designing their class’ Brass Rat and organizing all of the ... the new Brass Rat design. I went to the Class of 2022 Ring Premiere in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  within the limitations of the secondary school’s resources and budget. A ... went a lot smoother (with the exception of the fact that the school ... mention navigating school bureaucracy, taking care of their own families

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  crucial that the school be clear of how the money is being used and the ... of Computing. Even though a new school provides a fantastic opportunity ... outside Kresge that was the venue of the College of Computing celebrations

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  's team before leaving to start a team at my high school, with three of my ... You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70, via Slice of MIT, reprinted with Prof. Winston ... Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of ... were the last solar eclipse of the century. Now priorities are such that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that ... undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... levers. If you don’t want the hassle of owning a bike, MIT offers ... Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021