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• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I’d like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called “Quest for a degree from MIT” has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn’t be blogworthy unless there was more of…

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  As Virginia Tech held its Commencement recently, the media once again started using the “c” word, “closure”, the all too convenient word people use about moving on. Closure has become…

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet, seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that’s-just-a-fact-of-life-okay? dump that special someone. Some people will carry out entire relationships over the course of…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven’t seen today’s xkcd comic, I’m putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. …what, you don’t…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  (So honestly, I wrote this emotional post about my first year at MIT on the plane home, and then got home and found out Sam had written his own totally…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, you can get SPAM at McDonald’s. This week sucks. Well, for everybody else it sucks, because they had finals. Ruth ’07, Mitra…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  (What is it with me blogging about Justin Timberlake? Seriously.) I feel like I should write something fantastically profound and meaningful about change and how I’ve grown and other such…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals finals finals finalsfinals.

  

  finals finals finals finals finals finals finals finnnaaaaaaaaaalllls. finals finals finals finals finals finals finals finalsfinalsfinals finals-flanels finals? finalls phinals finnals. f i n a l s finals finals finals.…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  As it’s been nearly a month since I posted (yeah. I’ve been hosed. I still am – I just got out of my 8.02 final, and I have 5.12 tomorrow.),…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Before you get all “zomg” on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT students are much more clever than that. So this semester with my overwhelming courseload of two…

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  I have three final exams this week, so what better time to be watching videos! No, not on YouTube, but on MIT Tech TV (http://techtv.mit.edu/about/)! If you think MIT students…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  So I was looking through my camera tonight, and here’s what I found: It’s Director of Financial Aid Daniel Barkowitz, holding up some fondue! As his associate advisor for a…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  For the second consecutive year, we have been able to admit students from our waitlist. This morning, we emailed (and will follow up via snail mail) 20 students, informing them…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair. (Wikipedia tells me it was in the cartoon “Herr Meets Hare”…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  Emilienne, a sophomore studying Biological Engineering and French, has had a UROP in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department since February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There’s one week left of my freshman year – how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to attend of…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  Confusing screens at Chatelet station, Paris The term’s almost over! While I’m excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I’ll…

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really. Several times…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (more commonly referred to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 undergraduates. The EECS department is the best…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007