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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... and I request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  the way around the world from my home in the States, the Observatory was once home to the Prime Meridian and is the world's oldest working ... photography, and the list goes on with names such as Laplace and Lavoisier

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  feelings and activities that aren't directly Institute-related... these ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  a fifteen-minute bus ride. Or MIT and Boston University, or MIT and ... I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  other universities, and see if I could find anything about their history ... and production of the Institute's publications. So this gives us another ... adapted Universe typeface. It is simple and straightforward enough to work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern ...  high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university in their home country and begin studies while they wait to learn their
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage ... guitar, basket of food, and blanket), and I was pretty envious. I chose to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  and solid-state physics. Taking 6.004 (computational structures) and 6 ... ’m a course 3 (materials science and engineering) major. Rightfully so, too – I’m taking 3.010 (structure of materials) and 3.019 (symbolic and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  and is a member of Northeastern University's Class of 2024. Since I left ... my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  , but her 2 brothers live out of state and only make it back to Jersey ... The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are ... actually played with your feet), and preparation for the holiday season. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  -owned university, and whose students will be visiting us on Wednesday. These students ... Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative ... radio and sound trucks, and going into the camps and putting on plays on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  large masses of land, where cows on drives are common, and the state ... that MIT and other institutions plan and host to help you with the ... Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything ... the Library, and pelt out tunes that would make Beethoven roll in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact same taste in music: classic rock, blues, and jazz, and that's pretty ... this unwritten pact (well, I guess it's written now) which states that if

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at ... (and then scale it up to other technical universities). Companies would

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  , surrounded by some of the best biological and medical institutions in the world ... University professors are often portrayed as self ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  called the Transparent Horizons, and it is almost universally disliked by ... It's finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t-shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  General Institute Requirement (graduation requirement), and also one of my ... ="yeah the number system sucks"]why building 26 is bunched between 12 and 36 ... anthropology class teacher asked us to say our name and a small story related to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  decision on equal terms, the institute and myself, with nothing to lose ... thriving at my state school (Purdue!!) and have found a community of bright ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023