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Blog / About Decisions
Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.
about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap -
Blog / Admissions
Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.
didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
G(e)e^ks
First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel -
Blog / Academics & Research
Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.
MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per -
Blog / Academics & Research
What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines
The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a -
Blog / Uncategorized
winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity
culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections
In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... from years of watching [annotation note="my favorites are coolirpa ... celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the -
Blog / Challenges
processing in which I visit home and take time to think
the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of -
Blog / Academics & Research
school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks
's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on i. harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music -
Blog / How to Human
on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind
i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a while. i'm kind of emo about it, but have decided to take advantage of -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach
reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment -
Blog / Blog Projects
8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20
*written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* We did it ... afternoon of July 3rd, the team members frantically packed up every tool and -
Blog / Admissions
Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges
being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all -
Blog / Life after MIT
Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…
College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism -
Blog / About Decisions
Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial
Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap -
Blog / Miscellaneous
For Newtown
Last Friday afternoon, I - like many of you - learned of the awful ... MIT's Infinite Cooridor. I met up with a handful of other MIT Symphony ... Orchestra, who had all assembled thanks to the idea of Adam Boyles, our -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…
with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and -
Blog / Academics & Research
First Days in NYC
externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what -
Blog / Admissions
And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.
It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective