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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you ... As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  more exciting books to admire from a distance. (Science Incunabula! Left ... ,000 (for a handwritten note from President Obama), $12,500... Then, suddenly ... Convention Center, the BIABF was a bit like the MIT Career Fair but with coat

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  several pages of a novel, things you couldn’t tell from watching them make ... play Frisbee on the Kresge Lawn. -- A recent e-mail from an ... --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  -for-physicists class"]8.226.[/annotation] From here, there are only a couple more strict ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  to this area, though you can die instantly from such an injury. On a ... from a 7-seater to a 2-seat carry wagon. Professor Blanco has over a ... lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... you working on? What does your startup do?" "We uh... .... we're a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the ... it is you need a shoe horn to get their heads through the door) This

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  " (the search history tells you that this was a sleepless night): From ... and bright and red. One builds a lovely camaraderie from solving puzzles ... instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  mountains together. This is a tradition, as parts of my family are from these ... foods from going there as a child, these dough balls coated in syrup and ... for working in a lab. Copying over from my last post, since I've been

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  . Basically: a star runs out of fuel, and can no longer prevent gravity from ... dipole) which causes a jet of radiation to be emitted from each pole. As ... : typing, rhythmic desk-tapping, a circular saw (from outside, that is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  awesome vs. IAP remaining looked something like 1/x^4, culminating in a ... my things into a suitcase and head for New Hampshire with my friends. Once we arrive, there is a wonderful surprise inside : Vicky '12's mom

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  please, from literally everything (and potentially find themselves burnt ... conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like it. When I was a prospective student, I thought that IAP was the

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [april fools] interview with james e. tetazoo and isn't discovering part of the fun?

  

  . there’s also a lot of plants growing from the ceiling of the truck for ... you’ve heard from your classmates here? once, while i was standing in a ... geometry formulas came from and how you could just derive them from a few

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  Michael Epstein, who graduated from MIT with a Masters in Comparative Media ... a thesis for my program, and the profs - from day 1 - tend to scare ... competition, Sloan business school, etc.) but there is a bit of a chasm from lab

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  see myself a year from now. i’m not sure whether i want me from a year ... a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks sometimes use (a small selection from How To GAMIT's glossary)...   ... resulting from a piano falling six stories onto Amherst Alley from the roof of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  middle school resume, nearly all A’s with a single B from Spanish 1 in ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The hurricane was pretty far from us, so it only ended up raining for about two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lunt-2mwfc It’s not a huge departure from what I usually spin to ... feel the djudgment radiating from his [annotation note="a symptom of male ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... students from the waitlist. When our waitlist decisions are finalized, we ... admitted from the waitlist. Financial aid will follow up shortly thereafter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009