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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  of these requirements, but I’ll apply anyways and see what happens ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  in this corner of the universe with anyone who chooses to listen in ... this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  applications after spending much of last week reading international applications ... , as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  , according to random people polled by Randommites outside of Random Hall ... stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  (clubs). One aspect of University that is often over looked is the fact that ... University Digital Gaming Society (CUDGS) A group of gamers who come together ... off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of ... funny way of working themselves out. I’m definitely applying to MISTI ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  at the University of Washington. We (well, some of us) played Settlers ... impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  something to offer is an incredible gift. When I applied for StartMIT, I was ... , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  of meteorites. At the end of the hall, there's a room with a projector ... 's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... , when it was built 128 years ago. After an illustrious career of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  frosh on hall was also building one of these, so over the course of the ... Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years being intimidated: as a child, hearing stories of what MIT undergrads got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Carnegie Hall?" joke, and we kept giggling about it in the back of the taxi ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11

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

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2012!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008