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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to SanLuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  hours in the day (boxes), and there are so many activities I can be doing ... Writing Autobiography"] 21W.022.[/annotation] In fact, I loved this class ... this class. In reality, this isn’t an insane amount, but other classes I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... , I can't simply code some instructions that direct a specific phrase ... was just generated in the previous step. Then, I had to feed my code

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... almost 0 planning, and I asked them why they would willingly indulge in ... . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the ... 't bark, and can better fend for themselves while students are in class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state ... campus. Except I have never in my life had enough self-confidence to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely wanted something to do.  MIT is no walk in the park and I wanted an ... , writing and discussion." but I find this definition is lacking in a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  websites and learn stuff, i can't do it. i can't do it all. Here I used the ... One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  of my luggage down. Amina lived in a very spacious triple. I wish I had ... , so I took a picture of him as to not repeat pictures in these blogs ... other in years. I'm sure there were other people I knew previously at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  in the gorilla suit jumped in, and I said, "Come on, Mitra, we can ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  dancing in an empty room, so we can shorten the phrase “dance like no one ... span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical ... him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got ... website, and it made me super happy, even though I have my own bundle of joy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically, that “alumni relations” are “not considered.” And I can tell you, from ... from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that ... Con, the IFC, Panhel, and the LGC. The actual Guide itself can be found in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  it out! I won't make any money if you do; in fact, the Amazon S3 bucket ... IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... activities go, I'm usually only concerned with some subset of these activities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  then. And though I still can't grow a decent beard, oh how the times have ... thought of MIT because they'd find it fun too? I actually do believe in viral marketing, which is to say that I believe promotions can be as fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... heavily, but in some cases yes. / Yes. I am an international student in an ... rest of your application is strong. I am taking my second time of SATs in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006