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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  , which is not in grocery stores in the east apparently?? "]Tapatio ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... 2019 The Tucson sun is sweltering, and the rubber of your shoes will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  material is "not useful". Notice that I talked about a frosh dichotomy. This is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I'm probably running late (this is not an uncommon thing) 9:30am out ... 't know what questions I would ask them, or the omnipresent fear of not ... mixed-race. This is one of the first times I've really felt like someone I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’ll begin with a disclaimer. The experience I talk about here is how ... the Splash experience is like. This is a rather long post so here ... Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... 're talking about the pathology too much, we're not talking about the character ... am not my disease' ad? How difficult is it to maintain an autonomous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority ... Campus (it was love at first sight, and the EC community is by far the best

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the ... in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school ... all die. So do we. (Boston Globe) Of course, this one is the most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  difference and they want one, not the other. But if there is anything I have ... during the times of slavery, only to realize they could not understand the ... , dapped up my brother, and walked out. Dapping is the unspoken form of our

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  blog is about, more abstractly, the decisions I made this year. I feel ... (though in hindsight... maybe not that surprising). One of the women hosted ... other things like UROPs going on was not the most realistic idea, and Lee

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  . Nano Diner!: Not sure what this is actually called, but all the little ... people who read them. That's where this post differs. It is probably not ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  .01 midterm. It did not make the test easier, sadly. d. 18.02 has been food ... hallway to the Compton Lounge, where there is a seemingly unlimited supply ... is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  Everything is different now by Mimi S. '22 Thoughts from the Dungeon by ... is fractured online. Fewer people are commenting on the MIT Admissions ... ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I ... ; I'm just rambling. What follows is one of the most insightful and ... . Editor's note 6/17: "The comment is reproduced here with permission by its

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . Bargain shopping is not for the faint of heart, but for those willing to ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions ... weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  , but where I come from, the closest you get to snow is shredded ice in ... probably be called Adjustment is a Process. The subtitle would be Give ... assignment. Back home, depression and mental health is not something people

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the ... campus. Here is the view from the Longfellow Bridge from the MIT side. MIT is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  longer, and not all that warm. W11 is usually the Religious Activities ... buffet first. This time around, the food is Italian – it isn’t always ... blossoms. The tablecloth is green, a bright spring green. People start to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , liberated from the pressures of not having cured cancer by your 18th birthday ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  you in your dorm room. Or, your dorm is in the process of being closed ... , you Will Not Leave This Bed, and simply do not show up for the final. As ... realize that it counts the same as an F, and your GPA is tanked yet again

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  the local sights. So here is a sample of my adventures with Flat Tim ... Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019