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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it ... financial aid at Connecticut College. We at MIT are among those college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... provided by basic examination of internal organization of sentences, words ... know of at MIT, at least for undergrads (I'm not sure if there's any on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  person. The fabled Weather Machine did its job on Thursday, so at least you ... . :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the ... Center, at Meet the Bloggers. I hope you guys liked the root beer. My

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  like everybody's jovial grandfather at Thanksgiving, how Professor Hatton ... stereochemistry, Professor Licht's awkward humor that nobody ever laughed at because 5.07 is taught at 8:30 AM, Professor Hughes's earring, Professor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their ... perhaps the most famous class at MIT, and Prof. Slocum is one of the best teachers at the Institute. BE.010J: Introduction to Bioengineering Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  then moseyed over to the Swapfest at Albany and Vassar Streets. Several ... at MIT can you walk past Building 32 (yeah, fine, the Stata Center) on a daily basis. ;-) Back at East Campus, Greg basks in the "ambient

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  questions... Pia writes, "Last summer I interned at a Neuroscience Lab. What ... lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on ... on your tracking system yet. As Quinton says, "She'll be apples." At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  arts at MIT, though, this post will just serve as a log of art ... ="aligncenter" width="550"] interior of the MIT shuttle at night[/caption] [caption id ... ="attachment_94551" align="aligncenter" width="748"] some pages from my sketchbook

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... morning, however, when I woke up at 9:29am for the last conference tennis ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  page. For example, if you have to go from Tank to Soybean, you can go ... moment[/caption] At some point, the hype died down. This interview by The ... 's actually kind of creepy.   Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  . Clicking the Compose button links you to a page where you can record a piece ... that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here ... .lab[/caption] At the end of week 4 is the awards ceremony, because web.lab isn’t just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  Anna who teaches at Splash?" My internal response was: "yes, I am, but ... Sierra Nevadas," he replied, with sort of a snooty glance at the stewardess ... research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) headquarters in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  of arrows on that page, so I'll try to clarify. First you finish your ... major to go to graduate school in biology, but you should have at least ... . (Luckily, that's not a problem for most of us at MIT -- 80% of MIT undergrads

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  festivities. Definitely check those pages out for some awesome pyrotechnic ... 's one thing at the actual concert that's not at the dress rehearsal: four fighter planes flying over at the end of "The Star-Spangled Banner!" And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  , particularly. I am bad at accepting incompleteness. At points, my internal model ... hate crying. I am all too frequently disgusted at myself for trying too ... difficulties that I cannot, and don’t need, to handle on my own.  At some point

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Sights Las Vegas: At CES 2017, my friends and I networked with ... reality. I did that at both the Innovations Showcase and the Upload ... brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local ... : while at the 'tvte I was slightly worried if things would change with ... at McCormick" (yes) and "What would my ID say" (Paige) occupied my mind

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  changed SO much since then. at MIT, you don't really get time to read unless ... this book given that i'm only fifty pages in, but wow, its prose is ... now! that's crazy. Nisha, who happens to be very good at guitar, showed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  movie on Netflix at least 14 times over, if not more, and read the first ... arrived at the gorgeous venue. We took the escalator to the top floor and talked to the lady at the front, saying we were here for the early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020