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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  school, and quickly steered me towards a different course of action: going ... , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  they easily approachable any time of the day? (cz in my high school, we ... of a scary thought, right? Throughout high school, it's not that hard ... school counselor/family accountant letters among the majority of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  five-year grad school experience! Then I walked out of the empty building ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in terms of how I learn best and what I want from life. In grad school I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... established the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, argued that ... High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  design lighting and sound for high school plays - there are an astounding ... I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , a department under MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social ... -written puzzlehunts have stellar visual design, excellent use of technology, and a tight ... I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school ... ’ve heard of MIT alums saying that medical school was easy compared to MIT ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  class of cancer therapeutics worked. I’d say grad school at MIT is a ... school that none of my teachers in high school thought I should be going to ... This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... , towards the end of the first trimester of high school senior year, I was ... progressed however, what was left of school took over my mind. Writing stories

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... school (MIT, Harvard, Museum of Fine Arts, Wellesley.) There are a few

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... applicants). I am attending Mount Sinai School of Medicine. IV. In April, I ... biotechnology. I have yet to hear about a school that offers such a comprehensive

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  -and-done type of person. I thought that, after about 16 years of school, there was ... I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... each and every one of them. Last week’s 6.004 lab was literally designing ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024