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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... would never go to university (I did) nor return home (I did, at least for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated ... of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I was actually kind of ashamed when I didn't recognize the iconic globe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  were other activities I liked more, or was interested in, and I quit ... committments. Erer asked: I noticed in the admissions stats that because of the ... in the sciences at the same rate as the boys? Have to ask. While I can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... sun.   Elizabeth C. '13 and I watched the solar eclipse from ... before the event officially began. Through eclipse glasses, I was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster ... structures in my head more than I like resonance structures. But there was a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  and expenses, and I stressed about the rest of my life. In September ... new. I did social media research and sat in on team meetings about it ... , I worked on the end stages of some art installations in Boston. For

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for ... composer, and once I went to a Boston Pops concert and this girl who was in ... -MIT organizations too. What will dorm life be like? I don't know where I'll fit in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... from the airport so that I could show you, step by step. Keep in mind ... heading in the other direction, from MIT to South Station, it would say

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ) and told us we would get 12:00 - 2:00 with Steven Levitt in early ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  session for MURJ, the research journal I'm co-editor-in-chief of GM ... really, it's only slightly more work than usual (other weeks, I would have had psets in 24.900 and 5.12 instead of tests). And all in all, I'm not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I figured it would be cool to take ... Hallows, I will punch you in the face. I'm not kidding." Photos from

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  )? But keep in mind those classes I listed weren't like taken all during ... this is too many 8-classes. Hi Lulu.I have a small question to ask.In ... -Day competition when in grade 8 or 9? I'm unfamiliar with your system, but I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... Professor Watson himself." All in all, a pretty good book. I found the ... , which is complete nonsense that would totally not fly in most courtrooms

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  . :-) Reason #261 That I Would Live In EC If They'd Let Me Because they build ... Couple Of Weeks In my last entry, I promised to answer the popular ... -reading, selection committee, and CPW planning. In the last few weeks, I've attempted

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  So we were a little more efficient this year in making decisions (i ... major in 11 (she writes, "I know that my major is the same as Anthony ... globally. Chris Su '11 lives in MIT's newest living-learning community, i

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... both broken, though, so I guess it's in the spirit of our lab to recycle ... geothermal energy. No, actually, I have no idea why he keeps this in lab. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  would be great. I will be choosing which work(s) are published; I'm sure ... I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... Boston. Freshman year, I could literally lie in bed and know whether or not

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film ... , no, I am not one of those people. Not just because I’m busy and generally dislike superhero movies, but because I know exactly what will

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022