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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to SanLuisObispo.com ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many

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

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to SanLuisObispo.com ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... Hollis resident who is interning at Google this summer and will attend ... coolest of cool tech companies, Google. "In the interview, they asked me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... , many puzzles to do. The [annotation note="for those of you who do FRC ... can watch it right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ2ihFvauSM.

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  go to MIT and one of the girls asks: "Do you participate in the annual ... : http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/gallery/100308_mit ... . Every time you do, Richard Stallman thinks about doing away with the GPL

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  always be doing something, to always be busy, to always be improving ... two weeks of IAP doing absolutely nothing though. As you may or may not ... . Although I certainly do see the appeal of the latter. It’s all personal

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do ... primary mode of computing my freshman year kept me in my room to do work

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for ... recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to do before Spring Break. Right now, I'm working on number 22: "Blog

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

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news ... me to no end. Plus, while he's writing the paper, I'm doing his laundry. The things I do for that boy! You bet your bottom dollar he's being

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• 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 / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  can help! After doing a bit of research, Mint.com helped me find a card ... . Easier said than done though (where do you think the credit crisis came ... , some eat on campus for all their meals, and lots of people do everything

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post because honestly, i stare at a full Google Calendar every day, half reassuring myself that i’m Doing Things and half stressing myself out even more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  enlightening. This IAP, I was working for a startup named Xobni (http://www.xobni.com ... the Y Combinator (http://www.ycombinator.com/) program, which is still ... to what I wanted to do, so the safe thing was to buckle down and study

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  ; a few years ago there were widespread protests against google busing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUAT_xZiqI[/embed] Last year I hosted a ... along with me! Upgrade two here's my "I had no idea what I was doing" setup from last year And here's my "I sorta know what I'm doing now

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  about it. This year, I'm going to be extra and do a bloggers wrapped ... [/caption]   What do the bloggers have to say for themselves ... , and post your own Spotify Wrapped stats in the comments! https://open.spotify.com

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  do I drive to? The short answer is "food." I go to Star Market for ... 's what I grew up with. So sometimes I find myself doing little road trips like the one below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SRV3GhSNos Highly

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand ... gambling, you might ask? Well, I didn't do any, but many of my classmates ... , who had hit it big in the dot-com thing. The countdown begins to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  . Don’t chime in on discussions about things you haven’t mastered. What do ... dedicated their lives to the study. Actually, don’t do anything that would be ... ? Don’t ask for the definition of a word; just smile, nod, and Google it

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... . Do most people do this when they're umbrella shopping? I mean, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006