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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... really hard to even get a basic research position in a biology lab there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... live in MacGregor? Or will you just get randomly assigned to them as a ... more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  us to get back up to full operational and emotional capacity. We ... I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... 've applied to MIT this millennium, you probably interacted with Gisel, who was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  conflicting events and schedules, we managed to get some good movies in ... makes the difficult transition from high school to college easier ... to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  at MIT. If you get a chance to take the class, I highly recommend it ... who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a bit of a culture shock that made me want to better understand my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  found a tenor saxophone on Ebay, so Angela decided to get an accordion ... I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me ... excitement. Actually, there's been too much excitement for me to find the time

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  murals on campus, so I have been cherishing every opportunity I get to be ... we hadn't really done before, and to get to leave a "mark" in terms of ... , we did get a bit hosed and started having to work at odd hours without

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  about handling classes and encouraging me to get rest when I was sick ... school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  frames or ⅔ seconds. Pretty confusing, but you’ll get used to it relatively ... could lead to the film getting jammed during projection. This would break ... of BOGO deal you’d want to get. Splices exist for a variety of reasons

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  get from my plane to the main terminal hub, and then another to get from ... . And I'm still upset that I didn't get to fully enjoy being in a ... Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  semester, so I doubled up this semester in order to get on track to complete ... I’m glad to be getting the foundational knowledge needed for some ... psets as quickly as possible, so that you can get to next week’s psets and

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  can't get into an FPOP, what can I get into an MIT?” I figured DEW was worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the orientation stampede. And I didn't want to miss any MIT opportunities (helped

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  finish is good enough to qualify for Nationals in Iowa, so the team gets ... and wilderness to get to the next best cheering spot, it would have been ... students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  's probably time to get my shoes back on. Three weeks filled with neuroscience ... practice, and a couple long shifts on the ambulance before I get to fly back ... little more of this out. *I know that now I'm going to get all sorts of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  the fun part. But I seem to get into a build, fly, crash, repeat cycle ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and stoicism in the way I climb to not get frustrated, really consider ... enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  and, dare I say, interesting. It was a LOT of material to get through ... in class we got to break away fromo background information to get some ... passion is needed to such extent to get selected i am already in.:P my eassy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  . Perhaps just my voice isn't enough to get the message across. So I have here ... .” -Antonio Moreno “Let’s get rid of the stigma that you need to toughen up and deal ... ’t get an A, I’m still fine with it.” -Azaria Zornberg “Don’t EXPECT to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015