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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  were good. *** I’m not really going to talk about CPW or about making the ... somehow, I’m here right now, typing from a place that had once felt too

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT experience." :P Technically, I'm not kicked out from the blogs until the end ... had such little idea of all the pain that was yet to come :P So I'm a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  m.701, drawing for designers. the class gave me a brief window of time ... something i’m still working on, as i try to balance friends, school, sleep ... . [annotation note="me when im telling my friends i’m making a deal with the devil

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  classmates helped build.) I'm really grateful that Zack I. '27 offered to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  my cellphone screen. I was moderately aware of how I looked, my 3M

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  early international students. I'm an immigrant from Ukraine, so it was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  brother's starting college in a month and that makes me feel even older - I'm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  likely learn your limits, if you haven’t already. Pun not intended, but I'm

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  better off going somewhere that gets it." Aritro '17 - "I'm sorry that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  materials science and engineering. But I'm writing this post about anxiety

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  range estimation and entering the second quarter of my time at MIT. I'm

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  you're at it.... Want more? I'm just getting started :D ----- Stay

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  was trivial), but now I'm happily a Biology (and pending History) major

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  beautiful exchange: "Okay, I'm not sure that was supposed to be strip Drag ... experience, and I'm so grateful for the people who convinced me to do it. Some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we ... as it takes to get where I'm going, and that I'll try to appreciate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  awkwardness of meeting new people: people automatically assumed that I’m kinda

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  : QuestBridge is an amazing program (I’m very biased because QuestBridge is

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... professor adored W.M. because they were adept at juggling mathematical ... , not so much, perhaps because they found W.M. rather… uncooperative at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing ... prompt for this essay was to write a letter to your mother. Now, I'm not ... back there I could be mad. If I'm mad, I'll smack my stuffed animals. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  really cool or clever tshirts, but Course 18's is the best (no, I'm not ... you have to shoot an m&m in order to make it all the way down the ... bag of peanut m&m's, and we were spreading out in Bemis seeing how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011