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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  possible. I would perform on top of the coffee table, singing loudly and ... blathered on and on about the optimal way to make money in game and how to ... feels almost desperate, like I'm clawing my way for some sort of purchase

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  dispenser high. It is one of the dispensers that have appeared everywhere on ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  [I know this is WAY overdue, since Ring Delivery was a while ago, but ... Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  , I would have emailed him in September. Good thing I was on pass ... -shared set of experiences and friends (quantifiable on Facebook) so it makes it ... a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  , and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the ... awkwardly on the side taking a picture; the camera's hiding my face. harhar ... Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... program. Sponsored by the good folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... , and mostly, by hacking on their robots. The students work in teams of ... score the given number of points, we planned on having it drive straight

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a ... of different ways of looking at different things." There are also all kinds of ways that this "awareness that there's more than one possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  best way to learn is to push yourself so fast that you faceplant, and ... Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... with mother of pearl pickguard, ash body with maple neck and rosewood finger board. I got it on ebay from a really nice guy in Spendora Texas

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  class. And by the number of ways I can still fall on my face, pantless ... dominoes, one then another then another then us choking on words in front of ... classes that places a great deal of responsibility on its students

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  and Emma! oops sorry i’m writing this instead of working on the website ... lots of cool things happening here on campus too! Like: Classes Many of ... afternoons. Then the next two weeks will be for us to work on our website, with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Part of the President's House in New Delhi[/caption] The ... ! No, those aren't actual elephants on the side of the road.   ... WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  . There are lots of productive ways to utilize this gift of uninterupted ... update you on at this point. We work towards solidifying our early action ... 've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  prefrosh’ eyes, and it looks like a place of wonders and magic.” Back on ... Admissions website color scheme (but for the purposes of the Welcome, I ... gets warm outside, my room gets toasty (the one negative of living on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  Hi folks. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was good until the DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  . Unfortunately, I didn't get my column in on time, and the next issue of the Tech ... asked some of my friends for feedback. And they told me that it was good ... controversial issues because of the UA's dependence on administrative funding. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... -cultural appropriation hanging bead doors on my closet for most of elementary school

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured ... . 2. I got an A on my Pulitzer-worthy essay for German I, "Mein Freund

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005