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• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  all of the traffic. For months I brainstormed on how to take that ... having known you. If you've had an interview, I get to read about how you come across in person to someone you've just met - how your face lights

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  changes from home to college ... what to bring, how you’ll spend those last ... how conservative), and you’re all ready to GO. It feels like the "right ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  you!), how to get around campus, and how to pick a living group (SO MUCH ... I didn't start out this weekend trying to write a scathing expose on what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  how to improve the litter removal process from highways. After a ton of ... — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  emotionally taxing. From August 23rd to the 30th, dorms hosted events to introduce frosh to their culture and subcommunities, which was the equivalent ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  contradiction: consider how we perceive our admission to an “elite” college: MIT ... Desserts by Ceri R. '16 DNA and How to Extract It by Lydia K. '14 MEng '16 ... Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I spend exploring life, the less I know what to do with said life. My career

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  these parts. How is your brother doing? Oh, this kid? He’s going to be in ... took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56 ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  factor" . The weight assigned to each feature depends on how much it ... the program are to introduce students to university research, both how ... patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  to some and hover on the fringes of others, and how there are always ... what never was. How sad that I couldn’t get to know deeply all the cities ... on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  ?" Curious wrote, "I am wondering how many people applied to RSI, how many people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  both asked a version of: When/why/how did you switch to course 9? How is ... here.) Kevin wants to know: How is the food at MIT? The food at MIT is ... matter how expensive their meal plans are, which is why living so close to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  : Do I know where to board the Concord Coach Line? How will the weather ... .[/annotation] I do not really have a plan for how to navigate the reservation at ... there me: I was in Salem NH me: And i didn't know how to get back Vincent

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I ... hard to accept. Eric Olsen: How did the pandemic affect your admission ... questions and that's how I would tie these two things together, which is to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  interest. I don't want to learn LaTeX, or why numbers exist, or how to ... everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  trip, and by settling, we have forgotten how to live. Put more eloquently ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... , you might ask? Well, firstly, I need to graduate, and since I began

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  will be the first to take humans up. You know how when NASA multistage ... imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and ... . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013