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  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I took a gap year after graduating from high school, and it was amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought ... eyes, and I couldn’t think. My heart was pounding, and I felt slightly

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my ... made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  to not spend their money. I definitely didn't, even when I really, really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of what I spend on has helped me get more value from the things I have

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  I'm gonna be honest: I've written and deleted and re-written and ... deep of a topic. "Just write about your favorite shows and stuff, Mel," I ... wants to be like, "Oh my god, I can't let other people know that I have

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... ways in my life that I've used task management, especially for goal setting. During the school year, I don't actually use much task management

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  For the last few months, I've gone round campus compiling hair ... ]Chris Peterson '13[/intro] As you can tell from my avatar, I had hair when I ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I finished my last final. I’ve never been so ... ="aligncenter" width="700"] closing my 200 tabs[/caption] This time, I think I truly gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a

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

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... most close-knit groups of people i’m aware of don’t actually support each ... entire piece reads so much like a meme that i can’t tell if i’m just taking

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  One year ago, before sophomore year started, and before I became a blogger, I was [annotation note="REX stands for Residence EXploration, where ... a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ="MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave"]Lobby 7.[/annotation] i let my ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MIT A shocking confession: one time, I almost transferred to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  stranger to the blogs), and she has kindly allowed me to share them. I think ... are a very good start.   good morning, MIT—i didn’t sleep last ... is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  So I think that the goal was that this post be filled with wisdom and ... maybe some engineering problems). While I can’t say that I’ve personally seen the unicorns (sly little creatures), the two years since I graduated

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college ... algorithms. Whether or not I consumed this content intentionally, though, it ... study sessions, late night conversations... the list goes on. But now I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life!!,” I’ve finally settled on an academic path that I’ll likely stick with! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation &

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as I'm typing this now, I should be packing for my Chicago flight that leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it’s been about what I expected: seeing friends, going to class, psetting… all the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023