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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 Paolo 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... exciting ways if I took a year away from traditional schooling. Still not

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes ... graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  -MIT adventures, I have less to offer you. But! I still know undergrads! I bumped ... issues to some extent (being the only girl on my high school robotics build ... applications. Anne Condon's talk on DNA programming offered an interesting way to

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  senior in high school applying to college. After 17 years (and soon to be ... really just wanted to get out of high school and away from home. Recently ... since high school. The words were bitter and, as I wrote it, I stopped and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts ... believes will negatively affect his chances of getting into a "good school ... also look at a different example. Mills performed well in high school

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  The school year has begun again. I’m glad to report that some things ... what it means for a day to feel like it’s NINETY DEGREES (ah yes ... lot of moments at MIT that remind me of how different this school is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024