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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your ... how conservative), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right ... need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to earn money

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

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a ... , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... Semester @ MIT | Infographics Well, good luck to all of us this spring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a ... important thing is to find what you love and do it to the utmost of your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  ). Although I don't want to give away the play's ending - you can rely on ... other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  similarity is striking. You can also use the phrase 成人 to describe growing up ... on our refrigerator, listing all the dishes that had to be made. It ... lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  's it. It's rare for any freshman to live in Burton-Conner for more than ... needs to evacuate. If something's on fire, cover it or throw it out the window!" Actually, it's rare for any freshman to live in Burton-Conner for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  it’s worth it to stop and gather your bearings. But I suppose I can ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... outcomes and tarot card readings can be really helpful to encourage

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  friends will take up a large amount of your time, and it is very tempting to just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it ... classes? It will give you an excuse to read something entertaining and call

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... some creativity when notes dip below my playable range, I got it to sound ... , accents, and other notation so it'd be easier to read and play. Then, Mason

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass ... 'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that ... IAP, and then maybe I can make it as far back as last semester ... straight is really hard It's hard to prepare enough material to teach for 3

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  door open and used the tarp to ferry materials back and forth. When we ... it something to remember. ... to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i ... would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be fine, but of course, it's one thing to know and another thing to believe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  turns out, it's not a good idea to accidentally push down on your laptop ... and move to the front, to make it easier for him to come to you and ... I wrote a while back but never got a chance to publish; it's about MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  ="1000"] “Kelly starts with the calendar… and uses it as a framework for exploring what may be the most profound disruptions to our sense of it: the ... ; listen to it on the Whitney website (scroll down)) “...located in the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I ... have a very quirky adorable home and it saddens me to leave it behind to ... that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  deadlines coming up quickly. All three are open exclusively to high school ... This message goes out especially to the juniors... seniors, spread the word to your favorite underclassmen. The three high school summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... with Computer Science, aka [annotation note="I just refer to it as Urban ... , robotics, and public-policy—I can draw connections between disciplines to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010