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• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your ... to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress! What is it? The MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your newest grades, and give you an ... ’t need to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the applicant. This form serves two purposes: to share your newest grades, and give you an ... ’t need to worry about “getting it wrong” -- don’t stress

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  forecasted low of 18. But thankfully by the time we hiked up to the crag in ... A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  Wiesner as a corner to make phone calls, have lunch and leave trash on the ... [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] The Wiesner Student Art Gallery is located on ... location for current MIT students to show off their work. Exhibits are

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  yawned wider by the day. In every field I turned to, the same question ... over inside an RV to watch sonar clips of fish swimming by while ... to code or make music or, I guess, think about topology, there’s this

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... scenery BY ZIPLINE! Zipline is the way to travel, let me tell you. I even ... day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  build it. It's even harder to make it work reliably enough to present live ... fire trucks to speed through, but much more difficult to make ... for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  to freshmen by people who were little kids, if that, when the events ... 's no other good to come from them, at least they'll make good stories ... listening to a story told by someone who graduated when the current freshmen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  contributed by painting the solid parts. Our final touch was to splatter paint ... during WWI) that was the book cover to "The Consumer" by M. Gira. This helped make it feel like the entrance to the cave I crawled back into every

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  costume I had to explain to quite literally every person who passed me by ... Decision-Making"]course 6-4[/annotation], on making my way to the forefront ... : that is to say, I might as well make some money. And there are many

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  is organized to celebrate you! Come to the Admitted Meeting to… Make ... MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... will be organizing Admitted Meetings. This post is my attempt to convince

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  . Go make 'em great. Err, disclaimer: Despite being employed by MIT ... left the house, and then forgot to publish it. Well, here it is, a year late. And now, to hit the road for Vermont. Hope this helps with those

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the ... to make their way to Plaza de la Cibeles, where the real party would ... paused. I was pretty sure that I should have made it to Colón by then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  by a single pixel, and even though I recognize her (me), it's like ... 'm preserving this image of a CHILD by embedding it here[/caption] On June 5th ... in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your environment to enhance your mental facilities. As such, I love that there are ... lights. If you want to foster a community of free-thinkers, who are going

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  more structurally unstable by the weight of the expectations attached to ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  's lounge trying to hold onto the comfort that I have grasped to since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent ... like an old crow looks back on the time that has flown by. On my first

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  , try to finish that night (Did not finish - will finish by end of weekend ... with professors to go over my plans and make sure they were okay with ... does make me feel better. So I went to work, I felt better, and I left

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014