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  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... , “Do you want to see this?” “Yes, I do.” During the fall of my senior ... this conclusion. I simply wasn’t willing to commit the next four years of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin ... , have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... hemiplegic patient in a few daily tasks, with the end goal of performing in a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  major reunion and I've been spending much of the time recently, when I ... . Before the magic of the internet we actually got a real letter announcing ... were admitted or not by the size of the envelope...the bigger the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  a good perspective of the field. I think it's pretty key, but in ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of ... asymptotically how can we quantify the notion of "information" and estimating

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  . Unlike the majority of admitted students enthusiastically celebrating à la ... more along the lines of “okay, cool?” And boy did I feel guilty about it. Here I was, admitted to a fantastic school, the news of which had

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  of the visual goodness that is always contained in these dorm booklets ... one test My fate and class grade is sealed With one test I'm the good ... grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the ... working at the carousel, meaning I was at work 6 of the 7 days of the week. This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... ), I headed across campus to the bookstore. All of these are highly reccomended reading: And it was all so cheap! I am now the proud owner of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  . At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range ... up to the city of San Francisco where I had a relatively smaller ... already talk about on their website. Google is also a Gold Sponsor of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right ... , Texas has a strong presence of different political views across the board ... headquarters in Cupertino, CA to engage with the rest of our team and do my final

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... of my friends this surreal video about studying math because the ... memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  about all of the airport delays and closings, including O'Hare in Chicago ... arrived! 11:13am: It has started to rain. Lots of umbrellas on the campus ... : Edmund says, "You really are good at the 45 minute conversations, Matt." I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... from them about the status of my computer tomorrow, but if it costs more ... 'll see laptops dispersed throughout the sea of papers. Although it says

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain & ... Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founding member of the McGovern Institute. She joined the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The same thing will happen with Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, or ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the Class of 2009. I was admitted early action and received the news around ... schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  and mechanical engineer. Most of my 6-3 friends have already taken the ... have…… My freshman fall, I struggled the most with fear. The fear of the ... then slipped into the opposite problem of being too relaxed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway ... , because a little over a decade ago, in junior high, we were members of the ... seconds of shocked silence she raised her hands in the air (rushing past her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... absolutely zero of them. Shock, I know, one of the faces of the MIT Admissions ... and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  Reading applications from students born after the fall of the Berlin ... approximate the motor, visual, flexibility, dexterity and strength of a person ... it isn't any fun. My bones creak and ache and I can tell when the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011