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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 ... music study. What you do is up to you. I should also note that if your ... and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  everything in this article is totally true, like when he was talking about ... is performed by MITSO, and obtain an Erdos number of 2, all of this in ... Wars movies they were going to watch on a given night. Which, I mean, is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... to do intensive music study. What you do is up to you. A couple months ... ... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home that’s

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

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... nobody. Instead we're using 22 M formic acid, which is, needless to say ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  is to say, my high school journal) wherever possible. This might be somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... polymath is that everyone feels they have the right to a slice of my time. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... hours a day is almost certainly not going to overcommit you to anything ... , which is $8.75 an hour, and I was responsible for checking out books and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not ... South Street Diner, which, according to both Ruth and the How to GAMIT is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  , week, month, whatever, is over. I have a strange feeling my entire four ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... students who aren't yet freshmen. A pretty logical moniker: "frosh" is short

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  when the population is spiraling (I guess a more mathematically accurate gerund is "being exponentiated") out of control. I was hoping for a ... must take care...of our own world. There is no planet we can move to. All

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... tourists, and therefore, studying this career in my homeland is like making a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I’m 24 and sitting down and playing games is something I look forward to ... roller on my IT band, psoas muscle, and back is now part of my nightly

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple harmonic oscillations of the pendulum is going to keep whacking the sides of ... being unable to do it is like watching the battery drain from all my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  , which is how you know I’m well and truly exhausted. Normally, playing and/or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars upstairs. In some ways this is exactly what I predicted a startup would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  ton of Team Fortress 2. As much I hate talking like this is absolute ... 's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... , if you haven't read my bio) is an agricultural state. I knew a good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  'll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I'll get ... public transport; but even for me, going out to Boston from campus is an entire occasion, even if it is just a five minute bike ride away. This is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  the same, where my Friday through Sunday is filled with [annotation note="6.009 is Fundamentals of Python. It's usually the second or third ... ="attachment_57133" align="aligncenter" width="244"] this is what i mean

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  than it is because I'm not used to needing to try to sleep. Regardless, I think a big part of it is boredom. At MIT I would roam campus and ... huge, huge silver lining is that I've had the chance to formally live

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can ... , on the other hand, is much more rigid, depending on where you are. For ... Unproductivity. [visually_hidden]An XY Graph is shown, where the Y-axis is labeled

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  paid around $450 for it, which is like way less than what I would have ... Great British Bake Off. There it is while I was working on my costume ... ="aligncenter" width="488"] This is what Ubuntu looks like[/caption] God it's such a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018