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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  's just what everyone does." The bottom line here is that it is okay to slow ... .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... that it wasn't a disaster, but rather an indication that he might want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  project in 24 hours"]HackMIT[/annotation] this year just to see what it was like. It was advertised pretty strongly to freshmen, which was why Sarah ... , trying to figure out what the heck was going on with the Spotify API. It

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  . (note: Montreal is a really beautiful city and a great place to get away from Boston if you would like to go on a long weekend trip. It's only one ... answer is just this - In college, you have an amazing opportunity to try a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to ... class I initially thought was easy. it took me literally ten minutes to do ... to vibe with them is the reason my semester was even remotely tolerable

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

   http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... feel free to share this link: http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. It's been ... Hi everyone, The short version is this: please give anything you can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  all this crap but it's never gonna pay off Look there is another sunrise ... that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do all I can but I keep on getting ... , past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  help with is to show us more of MIT's culture, and make sure we know it ... financial aid office says they'll get it to me next week. Are they really that ... can look into it for you, too. I've already been able to track down some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After ... . Nothing is static here. You have to be on your toes all the time and listen ... ?’ [...] I just basically say it's an incredible privilege to teach at MIT

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It won't feel real until Mail Services comes to pick up the packages later

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  final proofs next week - and then it's off to the presses! I can't wait to ... to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I discuss embarking on our new viewbook project. I can't believe it's been an

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Brass Rat is that it marries you to the Institute. I loved all of the ... Delivery, from its initial conception to its pandemic cancellation to its ... leave campus due to rising COVID-19 cases in Boston. It was a surreal and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  length, but a flugelhorn is fatter. It's like what would happen to a ... and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to ... last played the trumpet (I brought it to campus with me, but barely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... from my cozy double in Burton-Conner. It’s the perfect time to update my ... , trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  Search (STS), which is also referred to as the "junior Nobel Prize ... like Intel STS is because it is a great celebration of science research ... This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  ’t even try to tell me that blogging is more important than celebrating ... Activities Period (IAP) is long gone ----> You, like myself, may be wondering why it’s been so long since I last updated you with anything. It’s

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  to the front of the stage when it was my time to start singing and did my best to produce the notes. It went reasonably well, and we were ... show[/annotation] called out to me from the audience. She said it sounded

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  to THINK! It’s different from most other high school research ... canvas. According to the description, it was supposed to represent an ... experiencing what life is like as an MIT student. Due to the pandemic, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  it be sometimes"]Somehow, I managed my way to the front ... come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves to warm fuzzy socks, there was truly everything at this event. The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the ... children reacted to it. "I didn't tell them to run around the classroom and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  brand-new ELL. It’s fun because we get to think outside of the box and try ... . At 1:00 on Friday, it was my turn to lead the simulation. Under the ... , but it took a little longer than expected for the budget to be divided

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012