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

  

  -Madison, having grown deeply attached to it, and she assured me that as long as I ... says, it really won’t matter in the long run. If it’s a yes ... happen. It felt too long and the question of where I would end up seemed

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we ... move in corrals — but now it makes sense. The wave describes the way that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as ... talking to people, I stopped cleaning my room, and I got very lonely. It culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  This is a long belated blog post; it's been a busy summer. But I didn ... !"]strenuous[/annotation] exercise isn't just how I stay fit: it's how I stay sane. I've found I need ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  , and no matter how hard you try you cannot seem to unsubscribe from it ... delete it a new one gets sent out. When asked about how much sleep you ... the dining. It does note that freshmen are tastiest, and will be paid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , even if i looked forward to it for weeks. three. "how do you sail, then ... . after john showed me and claire how to tack, and watching us try it out ... was difficult to tell how many hours exactly, we turned to go back. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , but you really need to realize how cool it is. Talking to some of my ... kill before picking up Kendall '07 at the train station. It struck me as ... who built giant marble and stained-glass memorials that have long since

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

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  planning and dreaming about for a long time. I’d started it in January and ... long. Felt like forever to me, too, even thought it was only twenty ... two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the ... doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... thirty days in Heathrow and write a book about it (or shoot a documentary

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  learning the [annotation note="how long to cook a steak, what spices work ... , cover the pot and reduce the heat to low, let simmer for however long it ... crumbly, that's just how it is sometimes. [carousel image1="48164" image2

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will inevitably be done in the twenty-four hours before it's due. Procrastination, I ... proclaims "Challenge accepted..." Oh, how true. When giving tours on campus

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  again: This L was better in the long run. Broken Computer L It was ... I never wrote a blog recapping last semester. I thought about it ... suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  . But maybe this is longing, or maybe desire, mixed with grief. It ... nice things about having long hair, like how I can bleach just the lower ... 't pinpoint it, but it's related to relationships, and how I interact with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... , rather than MIT directly. It's almost like that with being Premed at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  have been able to do the long multiplication in my head.) It turned ... us do basic unit conversions (i.e. minutes to hours) to find how long ... -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s ... lead to becoming narrow-minded. Wasn’t it good to be interested in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . It's a long way from Moultrie, GA, to Cambridge, MA, and an even longer ... center of your universe, like it was for me. Longing means you’re feeling ... share with some of our prospective students what it feels like on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  handed me a complete horse chestnut, and showed me how to open it. As I ... of job applications. "Explain how you are qualified for this position." List your skills for us. How many programming languages do you know? I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  classes but I couldn’t bring myself to start it. How the scariest part was ... strange it all was. How it didn’t seem entirely real. How I felt like there ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  mostly asked us. How has college been? Was it hard with COVID around? What ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama ... . As I'm getting prepared to move away from it, I'm starting to see how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023