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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  The Associated Press has a nice story about "Gap Years" that has been ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap ... submit a proposal beyond "lying on the beach," but often little more is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  being from a small-town or rural community.   As part of our commitment to ... College Network, 32 institutions across the country, including MIT (a ... STARS Ambassadors, Vaneeza—a current MIT student who played a key role in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three-month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  drawing [annotation note="there was a lot of… naruto though"]all sorts of ... elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper, scan them, and then painstakingly line them using a computer mouse so I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a ... student packages, and producing a slew of miscellaneous materials ... ..."]laser-etched wooden challenge coins.[/annotation] A major part of being a designer of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of weeks, that a couple of undergrads working together could cobble one up. This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  It's been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving ... Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day. Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . Actually, I take that back. Two of those days were taken up by a wedding ... . During the school year, my calendar looks, to quote my friend: "like a ... the Maine mountains, at a Renaissance Fair, and roaming Boston with two

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

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Once a year, a different US city hosts the annual National Poetry Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part ... one event at the Stata Center, which featured - you guessed it - a nerd

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  Well, that was a crazy week. If you've been reading the blogs a long time, you may have noticed a few trends. Every year, each blogger gets ... 't remember ever seeing it advertised as such, but that's what it is. It's not a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered ... Tbilisi, Georgia, and 1 to Tokyo, Japan. This upcoming summer, I’m doing a ... went to a rather STEM-heavy school like MIT. I think I took enough

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class was themed around cats, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it ... .2050 (Digital Systems Laboratory, previously known as 6.111) – a class about using

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... day we were there, it struck me as a vibrant city with stunning ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or ... always carries that “judging a book by its cover” risk, but it is at least true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Going to college and moving into a dorm means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with preset furniture, dorm rules, and maybe even a giant curved wall that doesn

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  weeks since an even more significant phase change of life, involving a newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan ... , he has been a member of the Economics faculty at MIT. Here's an official biography and photograph, followed by the Q&A: Dr. Jonathan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  Sam: [folding laundry] Guy: Your name's Sam, right? Sam: Um, yeah. Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now ... that this entire enterprise is nothing more than a spinoff of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005