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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for ... . However, rather than settle for a second choice, the valedictorian at Charles Herbert Flowers High School started applying for scholarships early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  : * (generally) higher pay (investment banks can pay up to around $10,000 for a ... allowed me to live at home. For this summer, it was more economical and practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  Press has a nice story about "gap years" that has been picked up by news ... quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my ... projects I've been working on at my UROP for the past two years. So first ... receptors, which suggests that it's important for maintaining the strength of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... everything's closed for the night. What do you do? Put the two together, and ... lifted, and this vacuum attachment moves in for the kill. There are

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn ... quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

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

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an ... for the summer, [annotation note="an MIT volleyball player who’s won so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  could see. However, we couldn’t stay up there for long – it was also ... first stop was the Museu da Amazônia (MUSA for short), where we got to ... -camouflaged critters among the leaves. At one point, he even casually scooped up a snake

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  found out about this game, I ended up playing it for three whole hours ... links and somehow end up on the article for Cincinnati, Ohio?" Imagine if ... to this. For example, did you know that [annotation note="btw i

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of ... narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes ... ’m sure it’s true for a not-insignificant percentage of the student

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  for their decisions, KEEP IT UP (the waiting). Time is passing ever so ... spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... . Before the meeting, you register for classes online; then you [annotation

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  ’s community in ways his father, who ended up staying in the U.S., never could ... mulled over the problem for a while, keeping an open ear to the projects of other MIT community members. He was partly inspired by Bruke K. ‘19, for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with ... culture is great and everything, but I live there because I ended up hanging ... ’ll be an interesting thing to try for a month, but I don’t expect to like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  fail to defeat Spain. So I went to Wikipedia and looked all that up. And then I found the statistics! For example, out of the group of 7 countries ... tickets to Berlin for the weekend of the Finale. So, I realized that I hadn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  city is so hyped up. The reasons other people seemed to have for loving ... Swift, with which I have been annoying my family for almost a decade now ... love hearing people’s conversations. Before you @ me for eavesdropping

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  't really thought about writing another blog on it until an email popped up (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old ... Spanish essay due tomorrow and 5.12 to study for, but I feel I must get this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach ... initiatives (misti) runs global travel experiences for MIT. they’re the primary hub for study/work abroad']misti[/annotation]internship on

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  post up by tonight, and though i just started writing this post i ... design. this is one of those classes i'm taking for the fun of being with other friends in the class, my top advice for picking classes. i love how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , sitting on my bed typing a blogpost. I've started waking up way too early ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me ... from). Waking up this early was a change. One I didn't intend on, but a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023