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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in ... coming to mind. But during my years in admissions, I've seen students take

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

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  out. Earlier in my career, I remember once asking a senior colleague ... I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... resisting the machine, and how I liked my finger-sensing button. My phone was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  class. In fact I'm in an Athena cluster right now, supposed to be working ... which eventually does research in a UROP, but surprise surprise. I won ... 't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... thinking, How in the world did they make that in a semester? Now I know ... covered in this liveblog by Janet and Kayode, and you can watch the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  amazing people, and remember that I wasn't alone in this very male ... 'm kinda old.  I graduated 1.5 years ago, and originally applied to MIT in ... in their workplace to stand up and be recognized. I was really

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 Nobel Laureates in Economics! -- and -- Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and students in all majors and all class years (including first-year students) can participate in research through the Undergraduate Research
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  how the app works. ...I think that's it, for now, anyway. As the ... Happy September! You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application ... us will be scanned. I recommend that you consider things like staples

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... away in the Kavli Center for Astrophysics (Bldg 37) on Vassar Street. I ... again, and it rained on me in my tshirt as I crossed Mass Ave but that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  sent before the deadline? And am I in trouble? Let's take the last ... documents, and I hope you can understand why. Please be patient. If the ... don't worry. In the comments for this entry, I hope you'll give some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... that I can understand later when I'm cramming studying the night before ... I'm taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  I can't believe it. It's been a whole year. An entire year. They ... with comments. I'll have a couple more entries (gosh, I'm overdue) in ... . I hung around the Infinite today and caught Ben and Matt as they were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Ethiopian scarves that I have. Mostly, I’ve just learned how to carry home in ... you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... 70%. Or 90%.) In the beginning of this year, I suffered from a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  initial difficulty in getting used to it. I’ve also heard a few people ... because it was thought-provoking, and I’m interested in hearing your ... opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  semester we saw each other in the infinite and I decided that French Horn Guy ... DID YOU KNOW? Madonna is 48 years old. Seriously. Guys, I need a ... tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an ... -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely ... One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... ’t what I imagined my final moments in Boston feeling like. I expected there ... seniors, I had no final exams – or any obligations – in the three weeks

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  represents them. I think it brings up an interesting discussion of how ... like i listened to a lot of alt r&b this yr but! thats just how it b ... is new...also the songs i discovered/listened to while I was in Taiwan

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  experience, we realized how potentially toxic the idea of a dream school can be ... Lilo and Stitch Opening Scene from Lilo and Stitch I Can Go the Distance from Hercules I Won't Say I'm in Love from Hercules The Gospel Truth from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017