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• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about ... to do intensive music study. What you do is up to you. A couple months ... ), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right thing to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  chilling with my prefrosh and going to class, etc. (we unfortunately do not ... can do it at MIT. And you can ask me how! And don't forget - Friday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #1: If you're paying for your food, you're doing something wrong ... you're sleeping, you're also doing something wrong. There is so much

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non-fiction books that I read was Studs Terkel's "Working" (which was subtitled, People Talk About What They do All Day and How They Feel About What they Do

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  kinds of things appeal to them, and how do they interact with their fellow ... Paris. The trip will allow us to validate what we've found and also do

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  I hate New England. No really, I do. Ask anyone who's had the misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  . Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of ... design tasks that come with this, they do take up quite a bit of time

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... entry - this one doesn't really count since I'm doing it from an Athena

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know ... fine, so I figured there'd be no harm in doing it tonight. A few moments

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  something to do with codes. Thursday: 9.71 midterm. I was pretty happy about ... soon-to-be-written entry. What did you do last week?

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  embarrassing myself on a daily basis I can do that, too. Here, I will start you ... think I am unpopular and start doing things for attention. That's it for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  . 10:00 AM -- Shower, eat, do homework (and write this) 1:00 PM ... again. There's so much that I want to do (especially now that I'm a senior

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  performance shows and The Amazing Race, every week, no matter what I had to do ... watch Chloe's victory unspoiled. But this isn't typical--some people do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... , Conn., where public schools are doing very poorly(poor test scores, many ... /sports/etc., how differently do college admissions boards look at prep school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  . Do most people do this when they're umbrella shopping? I mean, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  things MIT students do to afford college. Does MIT offer sholarships to ... whether or not I want to do a varsity sport come fall (and yes, crew is one ... pursuits. Crew is a great sport to do if you really, really enjoy it and make

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  most," Patty Pounds said. "She had the drive and ambition to do it." But ... influential in society," she said. "I want to do something for the world. I want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  number, so how do you figure that MIT admits the class that it does ... PhD programs, you're going to be doing research and so being prepared

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  have nothing else to really do except strike up a conversation. Person A ... do you call this food item (pictured below)? A. Fried Dough B

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  can do anything I want and she is powerless to stop me, I still think ... : Don't just jump into the river because everybody else is doing it.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006