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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... online reply form on your MyMIT portal, just choose I will enroll at MIT and I request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now ... , pathologically afraid cat I've ever seen. Harley never comes out from under Hannah

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  rest is history. I arrived late last Saturday night at East Campus, my ... to your preferences. Many of the folks I met during Campus Preview Weekend and in the online MIT09 chat were also housed in East Campus, and I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at remembering numbers (sometimes I forget my own phone number), but there were

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  thinking: technically, I should be calling them typefaces. First off, I ... .[/annotation] Consider this picture I took two years ago: The stickers labeling the ... the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  posted here.  I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading ... some suggestions she has for you as you prepare for your interview: I can’t believe I graduated from MIT 10 years ago! Each time I am lucky

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  It's unfair, I admit: I've rhapsodized aplenty about Manhattan's food ... is that one year ago, I vowed to leave no restaurant within walking ... pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran '23. I ... website. I am incredibly proud of Raymond and have been so excited for this blogpost since I've been watching it grow and develop since the very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  nuance, and I noticed students in my periphery taking more ownership over ... soundtrack is even more challenging. Wes and Luke did a phenomenal job—I can't count the number of times I got chills, or that the room Regressions was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  and competition. He's a really smart guy, and I found out about this cool post he put up on Medium and asked if I could reformat it and post ... in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up ... schools. I want to lay out some basics about what you might want or need to know about your freshmen year.  I've learned a lot through my own

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my ... programs/internships and so on. Through all this, I've learned that writing ... thoughts/helped me out immensely. And so, I thought I'd share. I hope this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions ... ", meaning I recommend that at this point you focus on picking the best high ... small town in Alabama is one of the top in our state. (I know Alabama isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  One thing about me is I love science fiction. Whether it be movies ... future technology and future societies can look like. I actually talked a ... -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... . What I will discuss is how the current dining system at MIT operates ... write about). To fix this issue, I present to you everything you need to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  expiring, so here I am. Per my previous post: the November Rule is ... for frosh and upperclassmen to start hooking up left and right, but I wasn’t born yesterday and I know that it’ll probably happen to some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... Quebec City as well because I was really amped to practice some French and I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I love knowing that I’ve said something I couldn’t say before and feeling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the Ivy ... conference, and very informative. I didn't know a lot about admissions before I began my job here at the office, and while I've learned a lot (a lot) over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011