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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  – not just for Campus Preview Weekend, but to start your academic and ... besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising future you ... : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to

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

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  some people...and simply doesn't for others. (Karen has more to say on ... Physics for Masochists...and for good reason. Even before actually coming to ... semester, to find out where my limits are." So I signed up for 8.012, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... may laugh, but you'll laugh for a different reason if you're a student ... an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded ... I struggle, I must leave my room To look for help before it is too ... mean; my heart's reeling. - To be honest, I saved the best for last. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  of for MIT prefrosh to write guest blogs before CPW. Cam's situation is ... senior. I wrote it for personal reflection (I enjoy writing) and posted it on a personal blog, but also for the admissions blogs in the hopes that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break. On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I ... I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  personal enthusiasm levels inversely proportional to the temperature, though ... tape for lamination purposes, and run back to the moat to put it up ... ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  straight-laced personality was exposed to a weekend of epic proportions. One ... every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  between me and the person I was when I stood there last and I had nothing to ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... to Starbucks for hot chocolate when I don’t make it to the cafe in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in < ... topic for more than ten or fifteen minutes without starting to wander or ... gets to refresh until it's ready for another round of equations. It

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... -way street Just a looking for someone to meet One woman who was looking for a ... to interrupt! We’re the MIT Muses. We’re looking for Iain Cheeseman

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... schedule.[annotation note="thank you to fellow blogger Fiona for making me ... sightreading, and I even got to play The Legend from Deltarune for my prepared

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the ... straight to the bus for our first game of this week — an away game at Lesley ... my class D-Lab: Design for Scale, we had to get welding trained in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our ... – the day of the first counselor meeting to prepare for FAP. We walk into ... watching a quality piece of cinema: Troll 2, not to be mistaken for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  ("having lots of work to do", "sympathy for peers who can't go to some fun ... to help out your friends" are pretty universal, for instance), but ... , to death. My point is that there's probably something for you here no

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... of each session leaves time for participants to ask questions, so if ... talking about navigating the transition from a small town to a big city for

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  2: art One thing I'm very grateful to MIT for is that it has really ... theater, I want you to imagine boldly who you could be. For the prefrosh ... a pit orchestra, or writing a show for people to see, I’d have told

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:     кошка кошка + кошка собака   I’ve decided to try an ... think it makes me more of a voice and less of a person. Hopefully this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  amazing to see him in person. He is a fellow at Gonville and Caius College ... Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... -MIT Exchange Program for the 2007-2008 academic year along with 24 other MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007