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• 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

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for ... is having! This will be nothing too crazy, but it is for sure something ... notes word for word and maybe adding an example here and there. If it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... ="aligncenter" width="225"] yay 6.1010![/caption] 6.1200: a.k.a Math for Computer ... song about graph theory for the class earlier this week, which I’ll write

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well ... . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam wanted to buy Brain Age for his Nintendo DS. He won; we bought the game

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• 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 / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for the first half, both because I was physically unwell for a huge chunk

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• 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 / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  requirements for 6-3 and honestly a class I've been dreading for quite a while ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... Culture; I am extremely excited for this class. It's taught by Ed Schiappa

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... today to confirm that I have lost my powers. MIT is infamous for humbling ... .02 (Multivariable Calculus) My first midterm was for 18.02, which has been my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• 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