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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  down. Life, college, career -- it's not a race. The other story today on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump at Loews…

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  . Life is for living. Below you'll find an article that was published in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don’t want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida… but it’s snowing here, and it is beautiful. I’m overlooking this winter wonderland as I’m reading applications today,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  most reckless thing I have done so far in my life, I know myself well ... healed. Life has moved on, with great appreciation and love to everyone who ... one of the more difficult semesters of my life, I have high hopes for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  images. I love photos & photography since it feels like life is in many ... mundane, interesting, and surprising parts of everyday life. So I set off to ... including the summer and my life away from MIT. I almost gave up twice, but

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  part of your life so far? Or is working life at MIT superior? (Or, of ... happy times. But I'm also enjoying life now, and I enjoyed life before MIT ... life, though many, many great things in my life have come from MIT. blank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  Yesterday (October 14, 2025) I returned home from Boston after 28 hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge is outrageous and is borderline criminal),…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  themes appear in some way here. We know you lead a busy life, full of ... challenges" really scared me at first. I had not at that point in my life

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  see LEGO sculptures and give life to horrible creatures. [carousel

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  life experience impacts our perspective. Her walk with illustrator Maria

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  ! There’s been a lot of the ways my life has changed, both expected and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  [annotation note="Engineering Life: Biotechnology and Society"]STS.011 ... cannot code for the life of me, BUT I'm going to listener one class 7

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton, to me, existed as a series…

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  if you’ve hung around the blogs these past few weeks, chances are you’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in which students can do, well, whatever…

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  This IAP, I took pottery classes! Between class time, open studio, and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight hours a week. Every weekend, I…

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  in my life that made me fall behind on the lab and I dropped the class

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In other words, MIT is overrun with math…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ‘Live to Eat,’ where would you rate yourself?” The question was asked at a…

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a group of friends, I swear! Alternatively, mansplain manipulate man…ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024