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• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... okay. As in, while in the motions of school, work, and whatever else ... the possibility of doing so. High school tired me out. If this month was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  pets in dorms, and the number of pet-friendly schools appears to be on ... be completely free of pets, save fish), along with an accompanying ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  note="Design and analysis of algorithms"]6.046[/annotation] psets ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog ... my windows – all nine of them this year – are my friends. Opening their

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  this one, however, we were using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tools to ... only one TA there, and lots of people who needed help, so it took ages ... hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... teachers) Music instructor (outside of school) An internship/job supervisor ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  number designates the floor, kind of like you might expect, and the second ... day of class. I know! It was terribly embarrassing. But I'm not an EECS major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  school, I felt like Kenneth took care of me and really looked after me. We ... people that left me in high school. There was some part of me that felt ... This past weekend, I had two high school friends, Kenneth and Ethan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , sponsoring companies offering prizes for use of their APIs, and copious amounts ... future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... of navigating to just the topic you want. You know that bright, rainbow-colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio, Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  school, that the stuff I dreamed of doing as a kid was stuff that I still ... of being back and Matt McGann and Chris Peterson have already called me ... (biological engineering) sophomore (whaaat, I'm not the baby of campus anymore

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  perhaps one of the most iconic Gen-Z movies of them all: High School Musical ... One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that makes the difficult transition from high school to college easier

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  played seven competitive sports. In my three years of American high school ... freshman year of high school and my sophomore year, I amazingly found a crew ... love. Ironically, I think I am one of the only people from my high school

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  is Azerbaijanian" all of which I learned how to say in middle school ... DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  , the kinds of applications any school (including MIT) would love to have ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... before January 1 working on regular action applications for other schools

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... action applications for other schools. You should still put the same energy ... applications. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  Ramirez, a product of Wichita Falls Hirshi High School who is graduating ... of the really great schools in the country," he added. "The fact that ... Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation ... (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023