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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter ... . 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

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

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  “joint subjects” between departments, where a single class is offered under ... ’t actually allow you to graduate in a year and a half. Although CourseRoad is ... Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Campus Courtyard. There has been a lot of progress with our four ... about safety! There are a lot of other really cool projects going on in ... those of you who have yet to arrive, no need to fret!  There will be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  live music. There’s SO much water! Austin is a green city. You can go ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are ... -out but it is true okay']answer:[/annotation] people, lots of them. I can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  building that you'll probably go into for a class at MIT is called by number ... means you crossed one or more streets from main campus to get there. W is ... Square hobos when you ask them where Building N52 is. But on campus? Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  you can’t really go wrong with a nerdy name. The getfit website (http://getfit.mit.edu/) has a function where you can enter your minutes and see other teams ... . The first is that you can see the minutes entered by your team members

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  ) My power cord broke. Okay, that's annoying, but I can borrow a friend ... 've received, The first one is about a lunchtime meeting for the Presidents ... 't actually too hard, which is part of the reason MIT has about a Brazillion

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  're curious what a pset looks like, you can see a sample of a 18.03 pset here ... . There is no such thing as "breezing through" a MIT exam, unless, of course ... exam. Yes, there will be times when the time crunch is so bad that you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  Do you want to see a picture of my cat? Of course you do! SHE'S SO ... professors and classmates and discussions and lectures, and I think this is a ... Hamster Her name is Princess Leia!! She's a princess. She lives in a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  , but I am confused about your title "Tecker." My son is on a trip with ... even pull a Mitra and dedicate an entry to you. Or something. Ajit asked ... , where there aren't such distinct personalities between different areas of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  : Pisa is small like Boston but has the similar feeling of a college town. The ... year Ph.D thesis/internship program is also a strong candidate for higher ... in the US as a nuclear power plant. The city: Clamart is all

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... about those scores? Is there a way that MIT can find out about an AP score ... of other spots). 2. On the section where you list AP courses, can I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  Malkovich (a great but disturbing film, if you haven't seen it), where John ... one or this one? Craig: The symbol on the left is not a letter, sir ... together to rent/buy a house as a group. And, as tradition goes, these nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  knowing anyone. What is great is you can bring yourself into this place socially at your own pace. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I called ... set off on a cross-country road-trip. I was leaving that early because I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how ... seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  by his wife, Florence. You can call someone a traitor by saying ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  are probably not the nicest on campus. There is no such thing as a ... in Burton-Conner, which is set up in a suite arrangement- so there's a ... usually in such good condition that you can't even really tell what's wrong

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  ball for now. As you can see, robot A is in charge of scoring in the ... slots are painted black so the robot can see them. Next to each slot is a ... , depending on where it starts. Each slot/bin pair is assigned a number between

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  can’t imagine living in a country composed of predominantly one kind of ... (although it's actually possible to do MISTI multiple times!). You see, there is usually a language requirement to the MISTI programs and the two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011