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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT ... reexamine his study habits and try a little harder next time. No crisis ... say that all students should take some time off before starting college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  , Ignoreland. REM is my all-time favorite band. They were pretty rockin' when ... promote their forthcoming album. Their show was pretty awesome the last time they came through these parts almost 3 years ago... 0x8. The Sichuan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  really valuable and people find the best ways for them to spend their time ... Covid and was already taking some time off for squash twice a week so I ... -broken-glass-into-an-expensive-microscope kind). IAP is all about doing stuff you "never have time energy

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  “teaching is hard! The last time I taught someone anything was showing my ... didn’t make use of MIT time as readily as we college students do. They ... those, there were more, and more. These kids had spent time writing. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  (fun challenge: drink water every time you read the word Missouri.) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared ... expression.[annotation note="or that one time I said Burton Conner on accident

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a ... look,” the instructor told me, after I’d been beaten up like four times

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  had a lot of time to get there. i head up to the third floor of building ... every time it's offered. this time, it's a class explicitly about ... ", because then, how do you define prefixes or suffixes? parts that come before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  time, tracking different requirements and prerequisite chains over four ... also view your projected class times for each semester you map out. Fire ... truly absurd amount of time figuring out how to graduate on time after

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  reason, and with many of the the same goals. And times have changed, and so ... on in admissions, and we never set aside the time, or the money, to ... 're looking at today. Wayfinding and features If this is your first time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  two, summer is officially over. And with that, it is time to bid the 8 ... . Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the key to ... naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  words, I don’t have to spend that much time outside of class on homework ... ’t appear on my transcript. 6.006 is notorious for having time consuming psets ... the best. 8.02 - Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism): Every time I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who ... . Summer is a good time for planning and reflection. My nerdy corner of ... point that for a time I wondered if my diagnosis had been false. After a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school activities and life: Spend your time with things you're passionate about. Don

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... from time to time. :-) I am also publishing this because (a) I really ... building one thing or another, all the time. But now I'm worried that I won

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 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 ... do anything you want, with unlimited time, no expectations, no SATs or ... knew all at the very same time. And you’d wake up every day knowing

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

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  of the items in MyMIT means that someone has alredy read that part of ... passport by the time decisions are final. If you realistically believe you ... work all the time. Is that the case?" Ah, the stereotypes. Well, it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... grinding 009 for two or three days, then using my spare time to apply to internships, and then using that spare time to practice coding. I did well at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... time but not pick up many new skills, since I already had experience with ... make up lost time outside of class. Designing a cactus lamp This project

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  time whoever's first meeting was. On some days we all go to our WeWork in ... . And sometimes we take a Lyft to get back home, but most of the time we ... eating dinner with coworkers, one Thursday night. It was our first time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  mistake of taking two classes that occur at the same time, 8.021 and 18 ... helpful Q&A sessions at the time that class would normally occur ... good because I also never...watch the lectures usually. By the time I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020