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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... -4307 "Gap year" is a bit of a loaded term, I think, with images of British

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  a lot of our prospective students will be as excited as I am that this is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this ... made MIT TurboVote a reality, in part because the small team that’s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  quotient? A: It could be. Or it could be that the potency of geekiness is ... up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  in a 40 mph headwind. As a sprinter, I thought there was nothing worse ... corner). Video: The ride terminated (as most rides ought to) in a hot tub ... dinner, I promptly fell asleep. The next day was brutal—a brisk warmup

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  this in a single semester. However, I can honestly say that it was the ... - Elevate This is a wheelchair attachment that allows the user to raise the ... average number of hours that students spend on this class a week, based on

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  that he knew what he was meant to do early in life. It looks like she ... that it was possible J.R. was so brilliant in a race car that he may not ... You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some ... hearing all over:   I've just read your post saying that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 highlights of my year in review. And what an awesome year it was! 1. This is a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best ... to 2005. Here it is used again in a rather informative 2006 blog post ... inspired by Banti G. ‘17) Life 1.   In a stunning turn of events, I declared

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i ... end of "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" kicked in, and I was just ... goal is to never skip a song. Alright, I better get some sleep now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  flopped 😹 [i mean you could argue that high speed rail was a tech ... to look like im hacking the mainframe: I went through a few fonts ... 220 TrueType font. 18.100B: Real Analysis I missed taking a math

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Fahrenheit. I learned how to spell cumulonimbus, in preparation for my brother’s spelling test, and I learned how to cook things that are not cereal, in ... . Kateryna Makova. After a year in the Makova lab at Penn State I returned to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to ... weighted against one. I don't know which envelope you'll find in the mailbox on Monday. But I can tell you that it won't change who you are

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... prestigious schools you thought you had a chance of getting into, or ones that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2 ... trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of ... answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  was a no-brainer. My anticipation was compounded by the fact that I had a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... you have to do in a week, and you sort of want to die inside. :) For ... with friends. The second reason it's a hard question to answer is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  book theme that was in line with a previous mural. Rob loves Calvin and ... Is Love?   Burton 3rd My floor! I've talked about it in great ... Poler '18, Andrea Li '18 This mural is based off a NASA work. I reached

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020