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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  financial aid at Connecticut College. "Gap year" is a bit of a loaded term, I ... students plan gap years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

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

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... . a lot of people at mit walk with their hands in their pockets, either ... , since most buildings at mit and in the rest of the world have fairly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  summer roommate from Bombay) enjoy a sampler of Belgian beers at one of the ... 't have any big news. But you know what I do have? Pictures of Brussels ... the Thalys website for "summer offers"--you could get fast connections

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  effect and at other times offer a range of harmony, dissonance, and melody ... will be viewable online at some point, and there are pictures of most of ... Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... people nerding out about all sorts of topics. It starts at CPW when you ... ’s why I’ve called at least half of my professors by their first names, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  saturday night at the house of some family friends, I catch a glimpse of the ... Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a ... field day they know something is definitely up. At 5:30 4 boxes are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8 ... "Head of the Charles". Activities line the route. There is a concert at ... plenty to keep me busy. Here are some of the many events from this time of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  half of the class was entirely taught by heads of things at a particular ... who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  address. At that time, the Class of 2021 will officially be freshmen.   ... myself to a lot of things at MIT I wouldn't have found otherwise! However ... among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... work right at the edge of their abilities. But this difficulty is what ... One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  [annotation note="the Canon!"]set of songs [/annotation] played at the end of ... I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  this paper was the incredible depth of making here at MIT. I learned that ... at MIT. Of those who responded, 78% said MIT's reputation for making ... Makers through this paper, and prouder still to work at an institution full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  whatever we wanted. I stared at the blank piece of bristol paper and thought ... at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  table. You can then walk around the card and look at all the sides of the ... if in offering to the Nintendo Gods, it recognized the card. LOOK AT ... Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  you up on an offer of a free room in Paris!). [] Me on top of the ... I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... . Of course not, I responded. You see, there's this program called MISTI

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  , my hall is quite weeb and a significant number of people have taken at ... my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... amazing."]endgame[/annotation], pack my laptop, and head out of next house

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  glimpse of what a writing assignment at MIT can look like. To preface that ... amount of time on it. At the very most, you can help me (totally voluntary ... the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  be held on campus at the Multipurpose Room of Sidney-Pacific graduate ... , attended the dinner and offered words of introduction. He has been a member ... community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of ... Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small ... would encourage all of you to have at least one UROP over the course of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• 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…

  

  each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of ... Ashmont or Braintree (the two branches at the bottom of the rightmost map ... you’re past the gates go up the stairs on your left.   At the top of the

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