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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online

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

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced ... you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... wanted to live in, that dorm being Burton-Conner. Burton-Conner has 9 ... different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  're excited to have you as our guests! Here are some (hopefully) helpful hints ... financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... more logistically difficult to fit in the extra classes that you need to ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... . No way, I said. I'm not trying to do anything extraordinary, I just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will be there to catch me if I’m anything less than conventionally

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  .100 - Intro to Media Studies 6.08 - Intro to EECS via Embedded Studies ... 's gone through many, many forms, from 5 classes and a UROP to 5 classes and ... look kind of gross to first-day-of-fall-semester me, a prospective Course

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  This year, the illustrious EA decision blog has been passed to me! My ... gathered from the title of this post. To check your decision on the 17th, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  summer. It's been an interesting summer; I've really enjoyed being able to ... spiraling, smaller thoughts and feelings. Here is my best attempt to describe ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing; those words probably don’t make much sense to you, so here’s a short ... -knowledge proof is essentially when you want to prove something about an object

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination ... enjoyment of walking long distances, it seemed like the right weekend to try

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  that they chose me – the inexperienced and very young intern – to travel to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... person let that happen!?" I am absolutely honored to have had the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School's FIRST Robotics team ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be ... value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  was nothing we hadn't heard before, it was still interesting to hear it ... to know from Mathcamp. There was also parents, alums, etc. People ... pretty sure that you're going to MIT?", "What are you going to major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus ... traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... to paint murals freely, while others limit art or forbid painting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Never Got Forks or bowls. got hella plates though

  

  I came to MIT forgetting at home my power bank, a charger for my TI ... remedied expeditiously, trust. What I did remember to pack was: a 96-piece ... common way to eat Maggi, I genuinely cannot imagine anything better. Maggi

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends ... feel like a constant sleepover and you really get to yap and have fun  ... and not to be meta and all but i just read jebby’s blog draft that she

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023