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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ungodly hours Wednesday night finishing the 18.02 pset that was due at 1 PM on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  number at random, and person #1 gets first pick of the rooms. Once they ... control their toy. At the first meeting of our advising seminar, we split ... amazing "Only at MIT" moment: Last night, a bunch of people from my floor

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  at which each ball can wiggle (and thus which wavelengths of light the ... spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of ... Mexicano. We joined the Arts Scholars at the end of our freshman year so we ... One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester, I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -college math and science classes. Topics of study include design and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  -changing potential. Sam Altman (president of Y Combinator) gave a talk today at MIT ... A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4 ... Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  . Anyway, I had an awesome time at the party, which was actually kind of ... of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to ... are 4 of us!" So he rounded me, Keri, and Jess into the frame and had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings above), and the walls are covered with an eclectic mishmash of posters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... face.     Pistol At MIT, we do a lot of things differently ... There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  needed to be at MIT. Matt McGann was the host of the info session and he ... opinion, I was not a blog stalker at this point. I read a couple of the ... great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can ... Met and MoMA and devoured a ton of delicious food at the expense of my ... end. The day of, we got up at 5:30AM and wrapped around around 11pm — my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... when I do. I got a new pair of shoes, since my old shoes were tearing at ... writing it, of course, which at this rate will probably be two years from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• 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 / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  have these traits as outgoing people. There are many types of people at ... schools and one of the factors I'm considering is the social scenes at the ... groups at many places on the web, including the Office of the Arts website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  studying for quizbowl. I think it is good to have at least one area of your ... talk about basically anything relating to dorm life at MIT. I'm one of ... The summer before starting at MIT, it seemed like all the freshmen

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

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  signboard at the front of the room. "Cha-cha", it might read, or "Samba", or ... Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the ... of the sophomore year designing the ring, which is unveiled at an event ... by the members of her class who cheered at the reveal of the all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  internships at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. One of the sites was ... that I could spend all of my days lying on the floor and staring at the ... I was so indecisive about classes at the beginning of the semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015