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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for ... ago, Anthony wrote an excellent post on this very topic: So you got into ... . But what if you held off on all that? Sounds crazy, right? –

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

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City that I ... published on MIT World, however no talk has influenced me more or stayed in my

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed ... totally getting pwned, it's ON Laura!" in Bryan's guest blog entry.] So now ... formation I saw on my most recent floor trip. <3 Conner 2!!!

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  the MIT Medical Reception on Friday morning, and the Activities Midway on Saturday afternoon, answering questions about MIT-EMS, MIT's student ... 'll be made famous forever on my blog if you come introduce yourself and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  list is just a subset of the many parties going on) Saturday Reno, Nevada ... exhibit is on display. (This is the most popular day for parties, with 17 ... a dozen parties on the last day of March. Sunday Honolulu, Hawaii, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  ...no joke. But I think the fact that we can name any precise location on ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  small books on local dialects of Zambia. Though we didn't have much luck ... waiting will fill up first once they get on it. And then once you think the ... with the Dean of Engineering at UNZA, and we have planned on meeting our

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing ... .2 Smoots On one side, it says "NCIL SACOEBBD FM TH RDC AEUEF DDQNCQL AM GANKDRED HQ RJ UFEG". On the other side, it says "ZMIZ SIYYEZDF LY TV VLG

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  mean "this morning?") watching a biblical archaeology special on The ... promise to write retroactive entries on everything that kept me too occupied ... song written on an e e cummings poem, being called "ingenious" by a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10 ... 's equations. 2:45 - 3:30 PM: Chilling on the 2nd floor of the student center ... to Shaw's to buy sorbet On a side note, I am very excited to add this

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  a ride in my virtual time machine and look back on some of my science ... , Krasty had actually become gold. We're currently waiting on a patent. Ca ... on a microchip to name a few. So if I were to describe my experience

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV ... or how much they were on. Last year I stopped watching both shows ... lounge on Wednesday nights at 9 PM, which I have always hoped will resolve

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one ... , since then I've seen some comments on other blogs asking things like "Oh ... should apply to MIT. I came across an article on Google news about a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short walk from the ... right to work on everything from scenery to signalling. Remember AP ... anywhere on the layout - here's a spot in the vicinity of Middle Heights. And

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  sitting on my couch or Ben's couch with my laptop on my lap isn't exactly ... you were flawless, and worshipped the ground you walked on. Haha, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great ... were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on ... disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  Orientation?" You know, to refresh my memory, I created a thread on College ... spend half a day working on community service projects around Cambridge ... put on their mailing lists. Other upperclassmen should add to my list

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

  Pictures of me

  

  . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here ... . Me in fierce boffer combat with Dan '08 on the Random Hall roofdeck

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  at more than just the numbers. Now I took N AP classes, got X on my SAT ... else from my high school applied. Took N + 2 AP classes, got X + 10 on ... it. Hindsight is 20/20. I think more than 1000 students get a 1600 on

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  Class of 2010 steps on campus next fall, they will find a cohort of ... advisor and his work on airplane water quality has appeared in more than 100 ... 's Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) program, his work on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006