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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for labor; AmeriCorps offers a living allowance and education funding. Reardon ... International Counselor did a gap year entry that I have liked to link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  's rigorous courseload - to allow you to explore what MIT has to offer while not ... ; you've probably turned your friends down on an offer to party because ... that EVEN on your internal transcript on WEBSIS, a P is a P...=p) On

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for labor; AmeriCorps offers a living allowance and education funding. Reardon says ... International Counselor did a gap year entry, focusing on an extraordinary gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  International or to make friends with that one kid you've had Spanish with all ... 've studied MIT's course offerings extensively - multiple times! - while ... . Much to my language-loving little heart's dismay, MIT doesn't offer

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  exams for both classes offered during orientation. Physics B gets you ... , offered in three different-flavored classes in the spring and fall. Most ... bother unless you did, like, the international chemistry olympiad or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and ... some classes like general institute requirements (GIRs). Most people don ... “joint subjects” between departments, where a single class is offered under

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to ... are twenty-two FPOPs offered in August, and each one gives an amazing ... 17 General Institute Requirements, or GIRs.  It is possible to get out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  sake of adding the name of a second subject to their diploma. I'm really ... 't have to mean extra semesters or no diploma. Alllll this talking aside

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  , I found it difficult even after surviving the Institute. There was a ... for the Air Force to offer a GYN oncology training position. As a very specialized field, slots aren't offered every year. My time finally came when I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york ... there to an institute without people who will learn from it? mit works

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  blended drink is no more. well, dunkin is the way to go now i guess."]institutized ... chapters. japanese 1 is offered in the fall and IAP, japanese 2 is offered in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  been writing to offer me a job writing handouts for one of AoPS's ... math.SE eventually got me noticed by StackExchange, and they offered me a ... access to elite institutions and only have access to the Internet still

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... side, I was often choosing between schools/programs that offer “Mech ... helps break the college bubble. Boston is much more international than

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  was incredibly excited to take it, before I saw it was no longer offered. Last fall, I saw it would actually be offered in the spring and taught by ... many times in the blogs before, but I grew up with so much internalized

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  events as well as Where Will I Live?, the International Dinner at Number 6 ... masks with the squad at 1 am in the Student Center International Dinner ... always want to have something to offer them - more specifically, a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  ) if they've participated in an International Olympiad." (Because the two ... preference for international students and domestic students at the same time ... does your computer offer you in comparison to how many units of utility

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018

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

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  help and work hard, you will graduate with an MIT diploma and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  participated in the Research Science Institute at MIT, which was in many ways a ... Institute, where I wrote a mathematics research paper under the direction of ... .stackexchange.com, StackExchange offered me an applied math internship in New York which I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... should know about the interview is that... 0. Do It! If you're offered an ... additional information about life at the Institute and it also helps the adcoms

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007