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

  

  Venetians wanted to party it up without having their identities known. For my ... So one day I up and took a gap year. I may have mentioned this. Every ... , the fun and stupid anecdotes of road tripping up the west coast, working

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

  bye (for now)

  

  , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... take me. A cool artsy Course 4, perhaps? Not really up for all

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that ... pint of ice cream, and then went up to the reading room to study for the ... also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  up so much room for activities. You do not engage in activities. You ... ’re hyped up on the excedrin you took for your massive headache. Your value ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... week to build and was up for another week after that, and the students ... for lab. People run up and down the wall opposite from where the baby

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so ... claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... of bed in 20 minutes is unfortunately pretty good for me these days. 10.25 am: I gather up my stuff and walk back to my room to get dressed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  paying for their supplies, no one speaks up and an awkward silence ensues ... Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  measurement. How many frosh stopped by your booth? How many frosh signed up for ... bottling up was grief. Grief for all the time he's lost: time that he could ... school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... have the audacity to sign up for classes like this, how I always seem ... holing up at my desk for just one more hour, then another, trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  ’t just have been you who did bad, right? You want to sleep, preferably for around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week ... and nobody will judge you for it. So if you ever find yourself in need

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  excited about Riri because she opened up the spectrum of imagination--for ... sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  than we'd like. But when you find that true fit, that perfect place for ... what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... for other reasons—my host was already known as "the funny one" among

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection ... . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  properties for September leases usually go up around April/May, sometime ... campus for their first year. But, maybe you're thinking about it anyway, or just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  up to the event. Our group chat was exploding with people asking for ... , everyone else will arrive, flooding the student center, picking up shiny new student IDs, looking around with their parents, hauling boxes up to their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first ... checks: what's your earliest class? Do you have time for lunch? How many ... want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021