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• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  for grad school. That would have made this whole decision business a lot ... awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at my high school was pretty sweet too, except in a different way, because

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching ... reprimanded for said freaking by the school guidance counselor or driver's ed ... , except that there was a high school prom there or something, but that didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  something that you, your school, your parents, and your guidance counselor can ... reasons why I chose MIT was it was the first school I visited where my ... ), don't ask about your IQ, and SAT scores are so high school. Finally, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  worse. States and schools shut down across the country. Federal “stay ... graduate school, and more. I talk with two professors who mention that MIT ... where nearly 1300 middle school students from all around the country take

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  after that weekend, I was off to South Korea - business class! It was so ... business class tickets for employees who are going on company business trips ... , and he was just as excited to be in business class as I was. We talked

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... summer internships. Once I had a few job offers for the fall, I re

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for labor ... thing to do," because after high school, don’t all good students go to ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that

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

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  [annotation note="cj: stressed out, busy, lots of things to do, idk ... vide the roll in rabbit bone stock at 139 degrees Fahrenheit for 4 hours. Chill roll, then slice into desired thickness. Bake at 375 degrees

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... , thunderstorms, 98-degree days, followed by rain and a 40 degree temperature drop ... degrees and that things like ice cream runs are a necessity. My lab, being

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  haaaaaaated dealing with this stuff in high school, or rather, I wasn't very ... school); I was an American citizen, uncommon at my Canadian high school. I ... dumped on by the jerks in my high school class. So whenever I was asked, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what not to pack for the dorms pretty much everything, honestly

  

  discount (very helpful when you’re busy during the year too).  If you forgot ... Marketplace for that. Bike locks are essential. (MIT offers discounted Bluebikes

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • July 9, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... is seriously paying off, and I better get my business suit out of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  machines, and then he started his own business. Blanco's inventions include ... 1959, the National Inventors Council offered $5,000 to anyone who could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... home, or because they're busy, what with families and significant others ... google calendar to my personal account though, or at least, the free/busy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no ... levers. If you don’t want the hassle of owning a bike, MIT offers

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  ). This isn't really unusual, and it comes with varying degrees of annoyance ... " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  degree temps they regularly weather. But the baby penguins were cute little ... spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has ... Students are non-degree students who take classes at MIT. You will apply
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  graduated with a course VI degree a year ago. I asked him why DeRon was so ... a school defined by numbers. Everything, from the buildings to the ... from the nation's premier science and technology school is leading the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009