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  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... Friday, right near the entrance of the school was a table full of more Kazakh snacks. It turns out it was another one of the school’s unique

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  apartments over 2 days - all in 90-degree weather. There were all sorts of ... weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  part of the Gordon Program known as Engineering, Innovation, and Design ... Kevin Rustagi '11 is a designer, entrepreneur, and musician whom I first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  stand at roughly 70 degrees. I’d drawn up the designs earlier that week ... the final design. My mom and dad came out to help us work, and all of us ... On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... earn money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation ... about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  internship was offering me a snapshot of what my life could look like, a year ... IAP (Independent Activities Period), MIT offers micro-internships, which ... skeptical of my chances at getting into Microsoft, because I had only taken

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  wasn’t fond of medical school. Or having people sue me. Who knows ... about engineering within the constraints of a high school schedule, but I ... try out. One of my friends in high school was an avid linguistics fan

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  A few weeks back, MIT's most famous fictitious current student, Alex Doonesbury '10, had an exciting IAP, doing the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design ... , and Charm School). Read on... (and if you like comics, or movies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do ... Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  real feel of -15 degrees. Just don’t do this one. Highly not recommended ... lot of afterschool programs at local high schools that I would like to ... sort. In high school, I really loved tutoring and the idea of helping

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  high schools that offered zero APs. Similarly, I had classmates who attended high schools that offered dozens of these courses, and, yes, some of ... . There are now 37 AP courses. My high school offered just 3: Calculus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring ... angles and degrees are easy: one-eighth of a circle, or [latex]45^{\circ ... number. At some point in high school, I had 100 digits of tau memorized

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... earn money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  . RELAX. This is your last year of high school. Enjoy it! Definitely don ... Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  of anything other than more school had never crossed their minds ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or ... I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it ... ), and statistical learning theory (9.520). outside of coursework, i ... other and/or 2) we graduate. lots of puzzle hunts and concerts lined up

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  never heard of an international science olympiad. My high school wasn ... professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now, November, passed in rapid succession. One of the things that you learn ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  done any research in high school (though, of course, almost everyone will ... in a secondary schools' science fair and made it to the finals of that ... Wharton School of Business? or can I acquire the same business education in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005