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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... how conservative), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  advance. Get their phone number. Arrange to check in and coordinate your ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... to Copenhagen. Immediately we got on another plane to Amsterdam. The

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  "mcgregor" get it tell your local prefrosh to go tomorrow/today (8/26) at 9 pm ... [/caption]   And finally, Almost 60 posts on this very site. I went back to ... us when we were trying to install it on the balcony of E entry, because

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  Vegas. I had the chance earlier to go to CES but I passed on it. A group ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... kicking in. It's one thing to follow the news on the Internet and tweet at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  work on a tuesday to bash my head on the same bug i've been bashing my head on since last thursday. i'll miss the satisfaction of getting my code to work. i won't miss my long morning commute and getting around LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  least one 9 AM class every semester since I got to MIT. On the third or ... , Rome, Paris, London, and God help me I want to get to Montreux ... I want to show you with this blog how awesome my summer is because of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... a slightly different permutation in order to get a nice figure for our ... get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  't mean to drip that much sarcasm all over your shoes. *squeak squeak squeak ... assesses the answer and provides hints if the student does not know how to ... Thursday and 8:30 PM on Sunday. One of the biggest drawbacks to this system

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful ... to our email list without any commitment to apply for admission.
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  your reserve. I was also curious about how they were going to teach me ... are!  How to skydive: just go do it!  A bunch of prefrosh on the MIT ... 't as difficult as I thought it would be. Just pay your rent on time and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice and understand what is important to you. Then, it's time for your ... to write on your behalf usually write very enthusiastically about you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  defensive stance to keep the kick from ending your soul. I don’t know how to ... for me to get. You don’t want your arm bent too much or too little since ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan ... there might be some that Google hadn't picked up on. My plan, then, was to ... ’d spotted on the map. I decided to shoot for it, telling myself not to get my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  nothing to do with how Tuesday managed to slip into the slender crack ... building that formerly occupied its site was put on Reuse. Several people ... Killian on the last day of orientation in order to be photographed and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  smiled up at her as I struggled to get back on my feet and cheekily replied ... cute how-to on them). The heels were involved because well Dancing in ... asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  confused taking initiative for being alone. You have to act on your problems ... pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  tasks and caught up on other things I've been meaning to get around to ... to get past my driver's exam tomorrow--fingers crossed on the parallel ... excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  . Learning how to sail and having the confidence to sail. Getting over my fear ... 've learned how to play the long game, what hills are worth dying on, and what ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023