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• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about ... can send a letter outlining your plans to our office: Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , representing the Hamentashen team. In order to understand his slides, I’ll ... fried potato pancake (can you detect my bias?) What makes this debate ... their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... them and feel like I have numerous holes in my understanding of the ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... good... besides, I'm more productive in the morning when everyone and ... years since I got in and yes it took a little while but I'd be lying

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find that I had in fact already graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in ... . The first one I actually made looked like this: Which, in true MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the ... people in the class, and it’s pass-no-record the first semester, and I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... actually a lot of fun since, for one, I was interested in my thesis, and also ... , but I really enjoyed the ~3 hour period in which my peers presented

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that, I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness ... I've broken many, many promises of various entries on this and that in ... 't get this up now, I will probably lose the motivation in a couple of days

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  describe how I’ve been feeling, but I know there was a point in the past when ... your own internal state, and I keep noticing in various unrelated ... of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  masters in aero/astro. He and I are moving into Westgate, which is an MIT ... gone -- don't! I'll be living on campus. You'll probably see me in Laverde's all the time. I'll be continuing to work in my undergrad lab full

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  mit x caltech rivals to lovers another comic shitpost

  

  i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  hear “app's online” 😒   “Tell me ‘bout yourself” “I code in C on ... job be mine?🎶   Please accept me please I want a job so badly Please 🙏please 🙏please 🙏please 🙏please    Regina: "Get in loser

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Two Things Just a quick update

  

  1) I'm going to be taking a 2.005 test in about an hour. Wish me luck! 2) The Prudential Center is flashing blue and yellow. . . does this mean snow tomorrow?

  • by Snively '11
  • November 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty ... of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours ... . http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/iap/ Classes are available in French, German

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and ... year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  fare. So here I am, riding along through Central Square. I’m in the ... , you bolstered my faith in humanity last Friday afternoon. I now ... , I was in charge of the treasury table, a nice secluded table in a nice

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times ... so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I have a test over in 5 hours". IAP in fact stands for "It's Awesome

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010