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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  at Connecticut College. "Gap year" is a bit of a loaded term, I think ... years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  ." For example, computers can analyze thousands of samples at a time, he ... used to that. I'm used to being one of the smartest students, but at MIT ... beach at night and looking at the stars.' [Cydney Scott / The Post] Corey

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  of my biggest reasons for choosing MIT. But back to the scene at hand ... great picture of it at the end of her post here. Unfortunately, the ... (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  Valencia, staying in a hotel at our final city of the trip, and so on. All in ... mushroom ragu and a glass of rose. At that waterside restaurant, I was the ... type of place. I feel most at ease in a big city where I can get lost in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  , medication, and race, but at the end of the day, in the real world and in the ... irreverent take on them. The level of action was a bit overwhelming for me at ... interesting and at times painful account of how difficult it can be to conceive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  winnings of 500%, I will never gamble again in my life. Anyway, I was at ... a full account of my activities at home later on, or maybe not. Anyway ... very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ’ve taken at MIT have had at most 20 pages of writing, and those were for ... courses. If you do the math, that’s at least one per semester of the ... pigeons to stuff into those boxes (i.e. friends), then at least two of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  things as those at MIT. Ursinus students apparently slide down some of ... sitting by the fountain at the Tomb of the Unknown American Revolutionary ... (coming from opposite directions) at 30th Street Station at around 3 PM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  Tuesday, we put a grant proposal together in the span of about two hours at ... “related shenanigans occurring in my wing of Next House at the time”? Well ... cookie content, not pedantic deliberation on the origins of particular

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Yale (CUWPY). So, instead of ... myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  particular. At the beginning of every summer, I feel a particular flash of ... Learned I think it's easy to look at these trackers from all of these ... management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  question below: The vast majority of crime at MIT is committed by non ... the other.) Finally, it is safe to roam campus at all hours of the ... the ring (RingComm) is selected at the end of freshman year, they design

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  going to affect me at all when I apply? Also, I've taken a lot of ... that they do give you a basic knowledge to build off of at MIT. People ... conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  's opinions on the types of people at MIT - I know there are a lot of different ... concerns, at least as I saw them back in the spring of 1996: Will I have a ... discovered that there are all kinds of people at MIT, even those that you would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , who is one of the most amazing singers I have ever come across.) At 8 ... of strangers with music. I was totally mortified, at first, but as ... : namely, taking advantage of every resource at hand. In the meantime, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  things with them that you can both enjoy.  Some of my best friends at MIT ... community here at MIT that has awesome events and is a ton of fun to hang out ... who will be at CPW, and therefore you will need a different amount of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... committing. But because of how much we began looking at other schools by the ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  reacts) The only bright side I can think of right now is that at least I ... 't looking great for Washlava at this point. vii. Examination of compound scores Next I wanted to get more granular and look at the distribution of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020