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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  The Associated Press has a nice story about "Gap Years" that has been picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn ... LuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  least we actually did the pset!!!! and when we're living in this strange ... with what's going on in the world becomes something extraneous and not ... to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life runs. Calendar: Hello, readers! Anyway, it's the beginning of the new ... . Monday XFair On the day before spring-semester classes began, MIT held a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  Today, MIT alum Pat Antaki '84 will compete in the Olympics. He will compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race ... in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  's been exactly two years since I pressed the submit button on my MIT application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... ago.  I have other things on my mind. The thermodynamics midterm next

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge ... are telltale signs - a hint of gold above the treetops, an orange leaf carelessly strewn along a sidewalk, the squirrels anxiously scuttering about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... and up the sides of roads, through the heat of the mid-afternoon to the darkness of Highway 1 in the evening, until, finally, at 2:50 AM, we stumbled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite ... in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you ... ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  So here we are. I'm sitting in the AeroAstro Gelb Lab ... the past year, share all the lessons I learned the hard way, celebrate the new friends I made, and end with some sage advice that I would give

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  the course. I think this has something to do with the science education ... swallow down all the details, I felt already jaded by this subject that ... , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  pizza so I’m going there instead. No interest in volunteering with the Red ... down the hallways taking note of club meetings, where they were, and what ... part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  little bit. In the past semester or so, I've realized that being an MIT ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  August being exciting. This, I think, is the point where I break to throw in the stereotypical self-introduction. Hi! I'm Evan. I'm in the Class ... .e. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as opposed to just one or the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  Here's the long-awaited guest blog entry on the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME ... , social opportunities, the Shakespeare Ensemble that I did many theatrical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  Happy IAP! Today's events (sadly, I missed the Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, and am currently missing the OrigaMIT Paper Folding) I've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... flavors. In the US, you have like twenty. I am fully committed, when I arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  Hello friends!! The semester has started, and I have been SWAMPED with work. I got all excited with the new semester and joined some new ... procrastinated"]today[/annotation] was the WMBRBQ! WMBR (Walker Memorial Basement

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  usually at the gym at the same time, and the other day we were talking about ... about the Division of Student Life (DSL) at MIT? Essentially DSL promotes the idea that learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom. Learning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers" after we took our exams at the bimonthly Science League competitions. (Nerd status, I know, but confession: I was much more motivated by the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions ... keep my finger on the MIT pulse and chase people around campus to get ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004