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  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  ’s Google search of “World’s Best Universities.” And then one morning ... University of Pennsylvania, and inside I found several brochures, and a letter ... universities and scholarship organizations. Regardless of the reason, I was glad

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their ... , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked ... absence in no way inhibited the spectacular course of his life. Washington

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... necessarily go out of my way to pursue in my degree. This would be biomedical ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  basketball." But when the Ivy League universities hesitated to make an offer ... my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  the University of Washington, then become a software engineer. So, why ... but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  ride northeast of London to Cambridge. At the University, everyone ... ). As undergrads at the University of Cape Town, they marveled over the ... center of your universe, like it was for me. Longing means you’re feeling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us ... universal as liking baseball, sure, but it sure is convenient that a lot of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to ... One of this year’s admits asked me how MIT sets you up for grad

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today ... people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include ... in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... . There may be an onslaught of information bursting toward you like an ... ? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019