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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  that the University of Texas, his alma mater, has its very own Gutenberg ... Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be ... of order if you'd like. My friends and I mostly wandered through random

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... , one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding ... other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Name: Jonathan Lii Hometown: Manhasset, NY Degrees and Minor: 18 and ... where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other ... sorts of crazy artifacts in his office and visiting him is always a treat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  university-turned-camp. There we met the president of the university, who is ... Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... a couple days ago -- an official sign of winter's approach. i arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety ... compensating by drinking copious amounts of water isn’t working anymore. Suddenly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  available degrees are Supply Chain Management, Principles of Manufacturing ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... northeast! Through a collaboration with Boston University's dance team, Dheem ... proud of this video! We practiced sooo much for this performance. It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for ... sleep, which sort of sucked. It did, however, give me a little bit of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... Huang and Vivian Tang, works under the supervision of Camp Kesem National ... be one of many counselors who will supervise campers in August. “Kids

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  all the benfits of a major university. ... ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  manatees. (You have to kind of tilt your head at something like a 270 degree ... up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025