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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  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 ... . Reardon says anyone would be hard-pressed during a gap year to spend the $30

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  began the semester by learning some basics: how to format comic scripts ... topics from lady superhero duos to Hawaiian mythology to being backstage ... really lucky to be able to follow my passion and write novels and comic

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  better. I don't know what to do different" I feel ya. And it may be ... and they usually turn things around by the second midterm. I intend to ... about the idea of being the head engineer and running up to my boss after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  least. Being able to feel immersed in the campus I know and love from my ... complete or close to being completed. This is really impressive considering ... virtual events to be held on the server. Indeed, once the map is complete

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  our application readers. That is to say, we won't be comparing you ... , which I haven't yet answered. It was: "It would be good if you could talk ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  developments in biotechnology and chemistry and will be analyzing that data to ... idea, and we’ll be making plans in the next few weeks to get it done ... got around to it. What was a tedious activity for them turned out to be

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  sprinted all the way back to New House, and up the stairs home. There, I ... my friends needed to add up six big numbers and divide by four (don ... test. Brief dinner, delivered to my room by my very kind boyfriend. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  to be judged by an anonymous panel only to be rejected. The process can ... .com. This was my worst nightmare. I had to be the ideal, happiest, most ... campus. Except I have never in my life had enough self-confidence to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  , sometimes amused by who i used to be, sometimes saddened. whenever i think ... comes with a few years of distance. i think i just need to be stronger. i ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  weird accumulation-of-facts thing that I do constantly? Am I going to be ... times in the past, by the way.) I'm weird, in case that's not clear ... for things to be done." - ze

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... population that strives to make the world better in some small (or big!) way ... that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you ... , I fully expected to be crushed at every corner my soul tried to run ... last year when I was remarkably overwhelmed by pressure to have an answer

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  a way to keep sane. It's a way to vent your pain, anger, joy, and ... [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

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  she has ended up in her worst timeline. Though meant to be comedic, I ... for a movie to change [his] life." And I feel like, in a way, this movie ... telling me in a big loud yell "It is okay not to know. It is okay to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  help concentrate, but it's never too flashy to be distracting. (That ... to by Madeline as Part of Me. Part of Madeline looks like a goth ... took something hurtful to bring it out. There must be something wrong

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  be famous to the prefrosh Also shown: This picture trying hard not to ... Facebook friend you. No takers. He's cool, but not pay-me-to-be ... was announced and ran to retrieve it. I took off sprinting all the way

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  's been very friendly and generous, going out of their way to include me in ... , so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of ... , eight hours in an office sort of fly by if you're enjoying what you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  skills to be mastered is simply too great to be able to figure it all out ... , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the ... than just the way something looks.  It shouldn't just be some aesthetic

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... , and that i should be gone by the morning. so i left. and i didn't come ... 'd leave me behind. cj: yeah. yeah, i did. dan: that i wouldn't have to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  feelings tend to sneak into my experiences at MIT, but I think I've found little ways to fight them off at this point. But, back to IAP. I wanted ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016