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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT ... ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  would have been unproductive. In hindsight though, maybe I could have ... how my grades said I did in the class, I was just happy that I learned ... able to several personal projects in the time I would be taking a class

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Whew, I’m exhausted even thinking about it! In all seriousness, this IAP I will be... - Working on my UROP in the BioInstrumentation Lab ... (it’s like OpenCourseWare but for lab work. I’ll be blogging about it in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... and how it works, I've found it difficult to figure out how to use that ... how to get to it is really satisfying. Additionally, I like the two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... I come home each night and tell my wife over dinner how lucky I am, because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor ... that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I ... half of the art had already been retrieved by the time I popped in to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , explicitly foregrounds these concerns in discussing how the MIT education, and ... MIT is like, I always talk about how it's decentralized, even ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  that anything in particular triggers it. I'll be sitting in front of my ... , filling my body like helium. All the energy would leave me and I'd lie on my bed, staring into space, thinking about how worthless I felt, or how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  days, I would be the only one in office hours. But I ended up learning so ... -inducing, so I would recommend this class for people interested in this area! ... . Right now, I'm sitting in Hayden Library, watching the sun sink over the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  coincidence that would never happen again, or whatever. And now that I'm almost ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... ordering the Indian food I have open in another tab. Peace out, cub scouts.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I ... 6 a cappella groups. In true MIT spirit it got hacked (see pic below

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I ... like though! At MIT, I have explored areas that I never have before in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like ... year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... 's one thing I hate in this world, it's physics). So, applicants, gripe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  good thing. How else would I have learned about bioengineering? Fast ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog ... lot of time thinking about you over the next few days. i wonder how all ... powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  miles in 8 months. How do you do that? RUN A F***ING LOT. No joke, I was ... not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  -related things I’ve been enjoying in the past few months (numbered #1 because I ... building in nyc, I liked the way the light fell on its facade ... the original painting in person :O![/caption]   I’ve really been

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  's something that my family members would poke fun at and point out and I think ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I found a metric that determined how acceptably fit I was and stuck with it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022