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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  my mistakes. Now take that 35-lb backpack and let’s get going! June ... the gridwork of Tucson. There’s a Target with an “Apply now!” sign, and the wage is above Arizona’s minimum. July 2019. Working at Target

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the fort’s rectangular footprint.  This method is effective in theory ... began to arise. 2x4s usually come in 96 inch lengths unless you ... people assumed that all of the 2x4s could just be taken and used for

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  significant amount of forethought and editing. At least that’s what I tell ... thoughts at the end of each day. It’s gotten to the point where I walk across ... . Night. It’s gotten to the point where I believe I am developing tendonitis

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto ... 2025s, here is some advice: you will survive this. You will have ... . I think it’s worked out for me; some of my favorite moments of MIT so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn ... that I was getting rejected. That’s the truth. Last September, I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I ... freshman advisor: it’s this person’s job to help you. My advisor wrote a ... : you have to make them, in a sense. If there’s a particular department or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  now MIT Assistant Professor?  (P.S: Answering these questions was super ... . Recently, I’ve had one of my friends be my accountability buddy and that’s ... event of my life.  What’s one thing you’ve learned in the past month

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  the Splash experience is like. This is a rather long post so here’s ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It’s ... you interested in teaching for Splash? Learn anything What’s Splash? It’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the ... ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  to come together and cook food together, the Assassin’s Guild would ... month! That’s incredible turnaround. Part of the firehose of CP✱ are, of ... haiku log It’s this pretty large Discord server, where all of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  , don’t think I’ve ever felt so exhilarated or so exhausted. Let’s move, and let’s move fast. Go, do–I know I will.” 2015 Now staring down ... post a demarcation of a starting point. Let’s see where we are in a year.

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in people’s minds so they come away carrying something valuable. I began blog ... that’s starting from the end, which is cheating. You know the end. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  -0. We ended our season with a record of 21-2-1, and we tied MIT soccer’s ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I ... . Maybe there’s a way to be optimistic about all this. After all, there is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ... . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... either identified or caught by Harley. He’s consistently been the fastest

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . Another seemingly spontaneous addition to our lab’s gadget arsenal was a 3 ... day here, our group director (let’s call him Larry. He oversees my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHwVBirqD2s The more I listened the more I felt the lyrics deeply, and the more ... , here’s to singing "I’m still standing" softly to myself and loudly to a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self ... dollar bills. “How’s school going?” Her voice formed the shape of ... summer I read former Yale professor William Deresiewicz’s sharp rebuke of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  computer lab I’d sneak glances at neighboring people’s wpm and quietly gloat ... people had wpm’s over 100. Other people started beating me at SET. Other ... moment I joined the MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group to see everyone’s

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Sometimes on mahogany walls. It’s not diverse, but still a bit impressive ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... Library, the second largest public library system in the U.S. (Disclaimer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  You might have read Kathleen’s earlier blog posts (one, two) about a ... surprised I ever found him given the low number of course 14s. I gave him my ... in either 14.30 or 14.05, and further in 14.19 our junior fall.  There’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020