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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  my pants, and I have not studied enough. We have signed up for it; we ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this delay are unknown to me, but I did remember waking up once and being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a ... equipping one of the members with six microphones for a fictional “quest” to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  indispensable!!!!!), a zipcard (I’ve used this to drive to pick up food for events ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... for life now. It also has an MIT Mechanical engineering carabiner on it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  business from MIT that makes it easier to write up plans for building ... Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the ... 's not just all work and no play, so for the past six hours, we got to ride

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  opposite our hostels and classes for prayer. And each Sunday, the Christian ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be ... of the Sahara for this reason—that’s maybe one of very few places that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  plans for a STEM profession reality TV show, come up with ideas of my own ... . More about that experience here. After I left, my team stepped up their ... can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT ... growing up, he consistently told me that "if you don't enjoy medicine, it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  life. Saturday. I'm helping Mikey prepare for the closing show. We ... line for the ribs. Where, like a beacon in the darkness, stands Snively ... with deliciousness. I asked Snively for the recipe; instead, his friend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , Dugan and I got to sign up for a new Barefoot Contessa mailing list, from ... she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry, which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  difficult and uncertain time for me, and for MIT; during their first year ... members of their class. It was, I think, the hardest year for the MIT community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  've essentially followed the "path of most math" for most of my life up to this ... and CS, and I watch anime and [annotation note="know an xkcd for every ... competition to be the best, I might as well give up now, because I have no hope

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  for housing. I ended up sharing a two-bedroom apartment with three other ... in with tech talks and lotteries for electronic swag, which we could ... appointments for resume reviews, interview tips, offer negotiation tactics, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  CUP (Committee for Undergraduate Performance). CUP was set up when I was ... . How did you become interested in Course 14? Do you have any words for ... as in economics classes. Or you could go work for a government agency

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  signing up for 6.100A, but quickly realized I would be better suited for 6.100L. I signed up for [annotation note="ALL TECHNICAL WHY DID I DO THIS ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  CodingBat and also looking up basic Python projects for beginners. I ... school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... also up there in my interests but I didn't want to work with organic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for ... this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  twists, hold it up with bobby pins and hope for the best. I have been known ... For the last few months, I've gone round campus compiling hair ... school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018