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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... the anxieties I mentioned in my last few posts, I think I've made (some ... in past years I would take on lots of scheduled tasks even over IAP and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place ... . my room in 5th west is kinda messy   I like it here. I don't want ... the impostor syndrome slightly creeping in, where I sometimes question

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too ... I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received ... . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  I miss having in-person meetings. I can’t just wander through the ... -flung meeting in the rain. I want February 2020 frozen in amber. I want everything ... things this fall. I’ll be living on campus in Simmons with a handful of my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast ... . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for the last time, I put my Brass Rat on facing up. In a couple of hours, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I ... home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and ... decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  with life, how in less than a month I will once again be reunited with ... Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my ... , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at La

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about ... get if you call 911.  In certain medical emergencies (I hear sports ... freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  December 3, 2007. France. I'm in France. But I just got done with Italy. And ... being contacted by a wireless host called MCDONALDS. Yeah, I can't really ... reason I came to McDonald's in the first place. I mean, I'm glad I found

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... further.  Many many years later, I understand [annotation note="in case it ... at how self conscious bloggers are of their Spotify Wrapped data. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  Resource Development."   Gotta go, I'm in the Student Center and I can ... chain of links and tweets that eventually ended up in my inbox which I ... featured in the blog post "Stephen, I'm Putting You On Notice!"   Jeff

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  'm already in Germany. but next time I'll talk about it!) ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... television of our youth. guilty as charged). Because I graduated a little over

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music ... of goose sh!t in it. Which means that I had been lying in a LOT OF ... . In fact, I did all my laundry, just so that I’d return to campus with a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  interminably for the bus, wrapped beseechingly in our coats. As I silently wept ... unusability of this MoMA interface, which I can't resist snarkily paraphrasing ... drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a ... gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A ... survival of snowmen everywhere! We will defend! If I could give them out

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as previously mentioned, a few hours before, I rushed out there in my sweats. Fascinating fact that I forgot upon rushing outside in my sweats: Gheorghe

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out well, because I did get two parts in said play, The Vagina Monologues. I ... beginning of the semester, I encountered my former Harvard TA in one of my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  really like when things are clean, to the extent that I can’t p-set in a ... their spelling exam.” “In that case, how were your—“ In the twins’ room ... We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  &A, will run about 90 minutes. You can RSVP at brownmityale.org. In addition ... admissions. Counselors can RSVP at brownmityale.org. I know that many blog readers are seniors, so for you, I have this mission (if you are in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008