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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of ... into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost any reason as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The year starts with 1,100 studious new freshmen who are ready to experience

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  around, but mostly useless. At the beginning of the year, MIT offers ... '13ers for the ceaseless rounds of free food that will be slung at them ... not universally feasible on campus. In four of the twelve dorms

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the ... slightly outdated) version of Marty's talk on the same topic at last year ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  choose your own classes? that was entirely new to me. the whole concept of ... zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  first discovered at MIT. Both of them were recieved better than my first ... exclamations... so, if you look at a phrase and say "oh dear," you're out of luck ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... . At the beginning of my sophomore year, however, I decided I did want to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... operate a Tech Dinghy, which is the most basic type of sailboats at MIT. In ... your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  the first part of his hour discussing the 5 percent of the universe we ... matter" like stars and galaxies. The other 95 percent of the universe is a ... remember at this time of the year. No matter how things turn out for you when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms ... program associated with the University of Grenoble. It sounds really fun ... !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  weekend, but those people are from Connecticut or New York. The trip to ... : The Story of My Phone: At some point several weeks ago, the screen on ... Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  place of its kind trying to come at diagnosis, treatment and prevention of ... diseases. The gallery on the first floor of this brand new center is ... are also eligible, as are MIT collaborators at other Universities

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... piconewtons of force!). Professor. Angela Belcher's research group sits at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  group of students at a secluded New England college; it’s filled with ... dove right in. I was back home in New York for a couple of weeks, it was ... love letter to New York? I was hooked. So hooked, even, that I waited for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  , engineering, or another field of study at MIT. This major includes a three ... media, ranging from New York Times stories to Twitter feeds. Provides ... taking a course load of nearly all writing classes, four or five at a time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

      After several hours of discussing so many good applications that were submitted this year, we inducted nine new bloggers ... a Victorian woman but now creates chaotic Google Docs at 2AM (though

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47 ... make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute ... on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... have imagined they had an interest in the universe, or in science at all ... -term health of modern astrophysics from having cultivated public support at its

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my ... ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  blogs: "Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times" Robert ... " come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012