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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the ... "job" -- yes, a fun one at that, but a job nonetheless. And others don ... ?), and maybe they aren't first or even last in line at the free finals

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... . MIT is served by the Kendall Square stop on the Red Line, which is at ... stops at 77 Massachusetts Avenue and goes to Harvard Square in one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  number at random, and person #1 gets first pick of the rooms. Once they ... developed at the Media Lab because I'm particularly interested in it!" This ... control their toy. At the first meeting of our advising seminar, we split

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  other superhero just by looking at them. I thought he was stupid.  During ... discovers that he has multiple forms of cancer and at best one month to live ... grow so much during these months at home. I’d have a job, I’d make lots

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  offer. if you're interested, look at the dorm pages and check out their ... . look at this spreadsheet that I made back in 2019 in ADDITION to my very ... ones you're interested in, and go to the ones you're feeling at the time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  stood at booths, trading tips on where to print, their favorite inks and ... ="see this year's grant winners at https://www.micexpo.org/showcase/."]30 ... hard to let me have. At the same time, and talking to my other friends in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  – they're not great – but as the blogs already have four years of Keri-is-not-good-at ... first day of school in the United States, at the start of third grade, was less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  us know ASAP. Be sure to validate your Part 2 (on page 10) well in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... nice, understanding people here at MIT Admissions. If you're

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  Matt mentioned on the page had passed, oops =/), and from the standpoint ... 't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at Stanford now). I did my first math "research" at Mathcamp. It was pretty

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  look at. Anyway… as if the fact that the majors, buildings, AND classes are all numbered (e.g. “I have 5.111 at 12:00 in 10-250”) wasn’t enough ... of the links at the bottom of this entry, and rest assured that almost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  -page paper and a powerpoint presentation on the subject, in four weeks ... off to work at your six-figure investment banking job and stop caring ... . Anyway, I fell asleep at 5 AM last night because I was working on that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  . So now the old laptop is living at home with my seventeen ... take it to the nice people at the Computing Helpdesk. Summer reading ... reaction just about every other page.) Speaking of cooking, Adam and I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job ... ultimately true. If the instinct to war and to act in our self-interest at any

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  many true obligations and Places You Need To Be At. Even when I was ... the most part, I had to be at work from 10AM-6PM, Monday through Friday ... May hit, the summer was approaching, and the days remaining at my job

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied ... -intensive” class), and at least two additional math classes of your choosing. Here's a page describing the communciation-intensive math classes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  fall. This summer they are mentors in Project STEEM, a program at Texas A ... of Cooper, Project STEEM mentors at Texas A&M University-Commerce, are ... roommates at MIT. In addition to helping with the Infinity camp in June, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  plus fraternities at MIT do not all have the same personality, so it ... at his fraternity. Snively didn't join a fraternity, and lives at his dorm. I joined a fraternity, but I live at iHouse, a specialized dorm of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... official transcript from your school counselor on your Applicant Status page
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  difference. The professor starts each class with deep breathing (4 BPM). At ... City and two weeks traveling around Spain. I interned in Boston over the ... crosswords. I started doing research at MIT's SuperUROP program in modeling

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023