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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 will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... . We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the ... a long, tedious process that I wasn't a part of since I had class from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  show's been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y'know, there ... . Once he successfully fights the illness, he emerges as almost a completely different person, working with his uncle to start a tea shop and

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  Shakespeare Ensemble's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opened last ... , clever new interpretations, and a great deal of humor, and Midsummer Night ... Mechanicals, a small, poorly equipped and ill-experienced acting troupe that

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  It had been quite a while since I looked at MIT's online Hack Gallery ... date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups ... please don't everybody say the taking of Caltech's Fleming Cannon. I have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts ... , except that it starts with a strategic and misleading adverb. One of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... the answer?  It’s a strange movie brimming with symbolism that leaves

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  return to/arrive on campus, you should consider getting a bike. it's so ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... 16[/caption] with a bike, that's a four-minute commute tops. i could

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  ’s been quite some time since I last posted, so here’s a quick blog post. For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a ... input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  a meat tray at a party. You grab a couple slices of each kind, a few chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I ... wish I could check African American too. Ya’ know, I had a dream once

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  A little over two weeks ago, MIT's news office released a statement ... guide curious students to available services. As Laura, a blogger alum ... of LGBT Services and a strong advocate of the campaign, talked to me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  . I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl. Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... with a cliffhanger--Ruth asking about an entry on David Hasselhoff. Well, I was having a lovely dinner of weinerschnitzel (no, really) this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  It's July again, which means that: I started a co-op Stardew ... the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards & photosynthesize & float on a river & not think about emails

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... NEVER have a pleasantly warm spring break? Hmm...well, there are a few ways to enjoy a New England spring and it does have its' charms, I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation called Transforming Transportation. Flying down was a bit nerve wracking ... ), that was supposed to bring a quarter inch of ice. But I made it here

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  royal guard. Like a freshman? Haha, no, you aren't allowed to do that until November. No no, today I felt I like a freshman, hosed for the very ... eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  sitting in a coffee shop in Arizona, finishing this blog many months later ... postcards picked up at a writing conference many states away. I moved the lamp from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It includes a little bit of everything, and because it's such a flexible major

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  Hey all! Time for another round of Q&A. A few general comments: 1 ... anything wrong with that (unless a subset of those questions violate (1)) but ... whatever reason, asking questions in the comments section of a blog post

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013