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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up ... Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  just run-of-the-mill icky like I do right now), you can head yourself on ... is never easy, but in most cases it's possible to do. Certainly a lot of people do it. 2. Charlotte asked, Haha...so who's most stressed out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... a Jersey accent. We'll freely admit that we do say "wawk" and "tawk ... only got a 760 on the Physics SAT II do you think I still have a chance

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... deadline nearing I thought I’d add my two cents. Disclaimer: I do not work in ... (after writing) to step away from your essays. You can’t do this if you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  do. And often, I have to remind myself that things like this are easier ... I didn’t know how to do half of them. There were days I got three S^3 ... week than I ever would have done doing homework. Between sailing and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having ... home and to try and do anything but schoolwork. The rain was pouring ... about what I needed to do next for my physical and mental health. Nearly

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed ... -classroom model, where we were expected to do readings outside of class and then ... studying the subject, since I found it was easy to "get by" by just doing the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  snowflakes on our tongues. except for daniel, because apparently he tried to do ... ="83493" image7="83503" /] and also here's a little video of daniel and max doing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  everyone has to do field work, I’ve really enjoyed getting to go camping and ... Most course 12s also do [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  as a student and/or community member." At MIT, we do have strong ... social science instructor —  but we do not have strong priors about ... thing you can do is just tell us, in the additional information section

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  usually do not, so I might miss a couple of things here and there but ... 1 - I'm Doing Veda Day 2 - And how could I forget these nuts? Day 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] every piece of red text is something I am doing later than I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  what I’ve been trained to do. Every time I wanted to take a hard science ... , you do not know calculus. You should not take physics C.” And I would ... tried to cancel out the d’s in dy/dx as one would do with fractions. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  "]almost[/annotation] every semester till now, I figured that I'd do it for old times sake ... taking this, because I was going to do SuperUROP instead, but since I ... REALLY hate public speaking - as do most people - but honestly, I could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  asking myself the following: What story do I want to tell? How does ... myself in the past: What do my work patterns look like? Confusion, by ... ? Green Building Challenge How do MIT students feel about our dormitories

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  friends or family to do crap like this, and worry myself with the ... of time doing this. Too much time. As a matter of fact, the reason I ... a soccer field with my buddies, or just doing the simple things that I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  and incoherent crap at the foot of the reader. In doing so, a tiny part ... (partial, incomplete, revelatory) catalog of things I've been doing recently ... , which we do every year to introduce new staff (and refresh returning staff

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... -ups and spare parts all over the floor? Some do. Others are less techy and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  and not doing many student-life related things because of the time ... -Adjusted College Student. I was doing standard freshman things and standard ... were constantly doing things to be sensational. It was a lot of fun, but

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution ... there was one thing I was prepared better than anyone to do, it was to ... junior college their first two years, for example, and do very well. In

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015