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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap

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

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday ... on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... after pulling an all-nighter on a Boeing 757. Way too many dangerous

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  yapping from me! The rest of this post is all Andre's words.  I gave a ... always finds a way, so I was still drinking from a firehose trying to ... wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  could go on trips with, from Newbury Street to Italy. I know for a fact ... -wracking. You don't really get a chance to redo college, but that doesn't stop you from wondering how things could have been different. Did you miss out on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  Snively). In addition, we are welcoming a new guest blogger from GEL, the ... Falmouth, MA, an hour and a half from MIT, where there are faeries and ... K. ‘18 is from Donetsk, Ukraine, where she almost had a pet rabbit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  , from buildings under construction to a Ferris wheel on the pier. This ... 've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my ... generally friendly. The city as a whole (as well as the Amazon campus) is very

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... memories of an emportant emotional experience, a phenomenon called "flashbulb ... , before saddling up my horse and picking up some celebratory goose fat from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  the next couple weeks, when things slow down a little. From the Red Sox ... -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a quick exit interview with my professor - and that's it. Done. A beautiful

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  I've spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom ... 'm on campus, I have trouble sleeping more than 8 or 8 and a half hours ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  Stacy stared with a look that said "all I wanted was an hour away from 2 ... 's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  way that we learn about admissions from a more global perspective and ... this summer (1, 2), and I have just returned from a great, thought ... applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  eventually, got it done. So, here is a day in the life, from May 1st till ... only photo from that day, which was a picture from a food delivery person ... trip from Atlanta to New Orleans. We made a few stops along the way and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  wish. Around 11:30, I absorbed a lot of photons on the way from Random ... the vegetable stands and took a elbow in the back from a vegetable ... youthful days, when a night of ravaging two-pound lobsters from the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  wheelchairs from the chair to their aisle seat in a plane, a prosthesis ... 's final presentations. I loved seeing the range of presentations, from a ... three final projects to do. I had a pretty intense week. I think this is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  convey a few revelations I’ve had recently. This was adapted from an essay ... right way to go. I've been learning a great deal from my few weeks here, garnering small bits about what it takes to build a successful company from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  erases the events from memory once they occur, I also wanted to upload a ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: REX (Residence Exploration) is a fun ... decided where you're going to live, REX is a great opportunity to find out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... than out of a desire to teach them. The “should” feeling came from ... Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  seem, and smarter than you think" from A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh ... To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... distracting herself by marathoning a TV show (possibly Firefly, again), playing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  . Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all ... ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  When I came back to England from Easter vacation, I was greeted by ... , Wednesday 23 April and has a picture of a knight on a horse. I was with ... probably make a good blog entry. Okay, I should probably have published this

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008