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Blog / About Decisions
Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.
one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant -
Blog / Academics & Research
Trip Report: ISEF 2016
engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... communities of intellectual and social peers through them. Participation in ISEF -
Blog / Miscellaneous
i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?
471462f4073[/embed] I've been contemplating the future as of late. With just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every second of my time seemingly is spent thinking of what will be and I -
FAQ / Life and culture
Does MIT offer club sports?
There are more than 30 different club sports at MIT. Each club is either instructional or competition focused by nature. Many of the competition focused clubs have excelled at both regional and national level -
Blog / About Decisions
Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ
admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... give you money. Advocates of legacy admission, like advocates of -
Blog / MIT Life
Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...
Universe” and soon it’s like, “Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it ... finish, but don't get too embedded in your bubble universe [of college apps ... Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence -
Blog / Academics & Research
Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.
degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... 'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each -
Blog / Academics & Research
wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening
necessarily offering clarification or description of any kind. Like a medieval ... of the expanding universe is revealed through cataloging Right: to the ... documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well -
Blog / Admissions
January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.
Bachelors degree from your university, we will not be able to consider you (we ... process and selectivity of MIT with University of Cambridge. Is it possible ... , and vice versa. The same goes for any combination of universities: MIT -
Blog / MIT Life
Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…
Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Time-sensitive matters
school at Georgetown, the University of Virginia, the University of ... Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just ... the benefit of the doubt. Eric (MIT Class of 2009) helped out first by -
Blog / About Decisions
On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.
into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.
universities are in the area. Take advantage of it. French House Sports I'm the ... moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House -
Blog / Admissions
How To Write A College Essay and other things too
the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... Gotera of the University of Northern Iowa, which was my guide to writing my ... Science program at the University of Okoboji because as long as I can -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…
and technological research and development also offers a wide range of ... tournament in four years. "A lot of people don't know it, but they offer more ... ' Loughlin of the Cambridge University Ward (Student Single), Cambridge -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?
, "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... offers and picked the other guy. After all, most of the professors are ... In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of -
Blog / Events
In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.
-and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting ... the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous ... lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at -
Blog / MIT Life
[Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26
Content warning: brief mentions of anxiety, BPD, hospitalization Hi ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore -
Blog / MIT Life
Finding heritage at MIT
this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... ) but also what you didn't. I knew, of course, that MIT students got to ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to