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  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  looking for summer work. Wow, I'm beginning to like this place! My mom and I flew in on Wednesday so that we could have a day for travel and use it to ... while watching the Discovery Channel (I was meant for MIT!) until my

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... for the one-semester class 10.26: Project Laboratory in Chemical ... are looking for work to get a feel for industry, then planning to return

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  being lazy speakers. It's a slang contraction for "going to." But if you ... element- more specifically, an auxiliary verb. For example, the sentence "I'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... U.S. with programs tailored specifically for small-town and rural ... the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post. If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for ... ; most importantly being the producer, a.k.a me. The producers for last

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise ... energy for itself. I suppose that perhaps this, too, is the cost of caring for people. I must care for myself too, and that is easy to forget when

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  've been blocked on finishing some post ideas for several weeks now. So ... inadequate for my needs. And also when its spacebar and Enter key broke, so it became mostly unusable without an external keyboard. I started hunting for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... you. But that last sentence is something I've been struggling with for ... 't realize exactly how unprepared I was for my classes. I knew MIT was hard. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , helped start a yearly Black pre-frosh fly-in weekend for Ebony Affair — the ... Missouri, Yale University, and Ithaca College. For the first time since the ... stood silently for a photo. We had more allies than we thought.  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two ... verbalizing protocols for a state exam. It took me almost a year of watching ... conversations, I’d suggest getting started before 8am. Your body is, for all

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend ... important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial ... &M University-Commerce for middle school students, high school students, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus ... . So this summer, I watched the news wire for stories of incoming ... scholarship fulfills dream for San Luis teen May 26, 2008 BY WILLIAM ROLLER, SUN

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  professor that I've had the pleasure of learning from for the past three ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... modern writings (which I got a lot of inspiration for). Ultimately, on all

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  8-Focus so for the majority of students who are doing 8-Flex ... begin on experiments with the level of detail you’re expected to for this ... time to give thoughtful and detailed explanations for all of the concepts

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two exams this semester: 6.046 and 7.012.   [STEP 1] TRAIN FOR BATTLE ... actually started studying for 6.046 the day before the last day of classes. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... was incredibly knowledgeable, approachable, and kind. When I asked for help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  write an essay about how you dealt with a significant challenge for your application - or perhaps you're in the middle of writing yours for this season ... for Girls in various combinations, I totally bombed the last AMC I ever

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020