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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to

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

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  brought to you by, well, Harvard. Two days ago I was chatting on the phone with my dad. I was crossing Mass Ave so as to get to Building 7, MIT ... the souvenir racks, leaving room for one MIT shirt? That school who

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  providing many opportunities to go abroad to work, volunteer and learn for ... . A pretty common question for people to ask me is where I’m going next ... to keep traveling, learning new languages and exploring. I consider

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do ... did a lot of legwork to try to get the performance videotaped, so we ... guess i'll have to start spelling jen with two n's. Posted by: jen(n) '11

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means ... you see it (unless you get accepted to MIT and we become friends). Left

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... th, 2020 Last year, on Saturday, December 19, 2:14 PM CST, I drove to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... addition to all of the above, I will be... Cooking food for myself instead

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  logged out of the Athena machine I'd tied my existence to for the entire ... three new web frameworks at us every lab and we have to learn them and ... coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  on our own anyway, but I elected to stay awake for 36 straight hours ... , so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to ... sharing stories about phone calls last year to freshmen we know and love now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... us out of the country, setting up bank accounts, trying to register new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2012! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  for the Baltimore/Washington Region American Red Cross. I talked to ... worked for several years as a consultant. We also compared her work to an ... ultimately lead to the development of appropriate risk models for children

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  skies for us, despite all extra grief we'd been through to get there. And ... shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to ... supposed to be legen - wait for it - dary. Awe-inspiring. Epic. Life

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  acquired by Broadcom for $1.24 billion. The competition occurs three times a ... was started by an MIT Sloan student who previously worked for Hub ... closed judging for the semi-finalists. I listed to the pitches, what went

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  from 9am onward to be with one another, listen, and share our hopes for ... fears do not really grow. It is just a new day, and we should be able to ... confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  biodiversity" survive for five million years without any direct contact with the ... 've begun my big summer project - redesigning the admissions web site. The new site is going to be so awesome. Just you wait and see. :-) How's summer

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in ... completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... coffee, played some cards, and then it was time to get off the boat :( Now

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  celebrating innovative technology by bringing in companies to showcase their ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007