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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at ... going, I can't possibly be the only one...

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  normal art songs, I thought that mine would be the weirdest one in the class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day ... was still pretty weird. Look and listen for yourself (that way I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  stopped similar projects several times in the past, but hopefully I can ... not finishing it. I had nothing. When I went to give my presentation in ... poor heart T-T. As you can guess, I'm not a big fan of physics. Oh well

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  law of sines! This is gonna be a tough puppy, but I think you guys can handle it. Let me know if I snow anybody." So, imagine our delight when we ... Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You ... .  You make me wonder if I’d be a comic artist in another life

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  the people who were juniors in my freshman year, i can only laugh at the ... i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... three years older than me in high school, so i was always the youngest. in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  will come to MIT to study, I look forward to seeing many of you at CPW in ... are the global leaders in the near future. One thing that I am certain ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  . I dressed up and went to see W in a theater with my boyfriend and we ... cars at the crossings.) I know where to find plenty of They Might Be ... A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  free software like gnuradio), you can have a working FM radio in about an ... some of the things i learned in my favorite technical class at MIT, 16 ... professors in the MIT CMS department). i'm thinking about these pictures of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... feel it with physics, too. There must be some reason I made room in my ... study!) So I guess the wine in the wine glass represents our brains

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  ![/caption] Amber: What was your role(s) in the club last year?  Audrey: I started ... to form a community where we can learn and have a good time together ... and 3rd in design, winning $1.5K in prizes. I’m so proud of the team for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  , “Special report from Boston!” (where I’m a student ... English that I wrote it in to the typical Russian they publish in, but the ... thinking about an article about foreigners living in St. Petersburg. So I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only ... reason, we can refrigerate it, but otherwise we can just keep them in a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  and see more people, and I never knew how good it can be to be in Boston ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... -physical amount in three months. But same difference!) I had such a bad spring I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  time I step on a scale, I find myself doing the BMI calculation in my ... 's another thing I can't bring myself to care about, at least, care about ... resting heart rate is about 85 bpm. I can walk up maybe five flights of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... deferred again, i wouldn't react in the same way? many of my friends reached ... rest of your life. you can feel like you want to lie in bed all day. you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  ? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any ... my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... the MIT bubble, and I didn't really think about how little I actually leave campus until I eventually realized that I barely leave my dorm, let

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018