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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to earn

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

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to earn money

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  each frat sets up a table under the tent on Kresge that’s used for ... from the entrance and walking by each table, pausing for a moment if it ... wouldn’t have the wide-eyed stupor of a first-year seeing Greek letters for

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo ... a brief for the importance of attending to thoughts principally ... . So here goes: The Burchard Scholars Program is a dinner

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight ... , and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  various sizes. The culprit? Well, most pinned the blame on Amazon for its ... Prime membership (with free two-day shipping) for a year. And, supposedly ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  /her preferences. For example, if a student has selected "biology," the portlet will ... MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  drawstring bag for the day, which has in it an iPad, a battery pack, some ... .[/annotation] Since 9 AM on a weekend is absurdly early for most people, the first ... water for the whole trip. Uh-oh.   11:50 AM, Natick: Mile 10 As a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... 're their number one fans. Get a picture of the pushing crowds and the buzz

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  for two years: briggs field, flat and green and fine but boring. the sun ... for just one week and breathe a different kind of air. it's almost ... on friday, loud, incessant bangs and whirrs of the never

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... to use the cover for a last minute gift. So Walounge will hopefully get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  . Uglier than anything you've ever seen. On the other hand, you may instead think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is ... in 56 as well. Here's a shot of the hallway from the other end. That

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  German) first. The exhibit is in a completely dark room except for the ... except for one– glow in a certain sequence: the singular purple bulb ... for a while, even though, after a few cycles, I knew which phase of the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  and taking a nap for the rest of the semester. Each project is quite ... of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... understand." I'd give this pset a 2 out of 5 on the "assume the fetal position

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  and their airplanes stuffed into a single Cessna hangar. There's the ... 're in Kansas for the Design/Build/Fly competition, and after unpacking our ... .   At the competition site, every team was given a taped-off area about 7

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  Recently Evan's mother, who is, for the record, so cool, sent the bloggers an email about a $10,000 scholarship for any bloggers who attend ... be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  for the writing major. In many ways, I am living a double life, taking ... contemporary art to hang up in their room for a year. Acapella groups roam the ... that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the ... residence for the next three weeks, is a small suburban city about 30 minutes ... kg of steak for 35 euros, and we rounded the trip out with a visit to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group ... scheduled work rotations the base also had special activities planned for the

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008