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• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -gender social clubs, or affirmative action). Harvard Square has a lot more ... biotech companies to MIT campus (possibly for recruiting reasons or close ... ’s snowy out,[/annotation] when the leaves turn colors in the fall, or

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you ... bring, how you’ll spend those last days with friends and family ... do anything you want, with unlimited time, no expectations, no SATs or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  being from a small-town or rural community.   As part of our commitment to ... a three-day visit to learn about the college application process, MIT ... other before spending the next two days together. At dinner afterwards, we

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  be cringe, and be myself, and care a little less about what i don’t (or ... sorrow and every following happiness and every normal day and every big day ... will be okay. or in a different world, i would graduate from MIT and get

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  incentive to get us through the day (like during the memorable week when an entire mail server was down for several days) or because there were ... problems are too complicated or hardware-related to solve over the phone. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who’ve followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I actually…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications ... weeks before January 1 working on regular action applications for other ... , or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  structure.. perhaps the key word here is "trying"..) Or you could look at it ... talking about how to judge whether or not you're suited for MIT, and vice ... chapter of Treehuggers United or winning the European Young Scientist award

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  you get in but your friend doesn't; or when you get in, but your arch-rival doesn't, and then they start talking shit about you; or, especially, when the shit they talk about you is downright rude, racist, or sexist. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days ... as you walk out the door. It’s friends that can brighten your day with ... , day to day, I find myself in a constant cycle of never-ending work. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  be the first to tell you that the day he saw me cooking corned beef hash was one of the most miraculous days ever. Sara, however, still ... good fun of course), but Sara stands by her soup and cereal. One day, the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days." The Bell Jar is Plath's only novel. However, if you're familiar with Daddy or ... who occupy many worlds, loathe womanhood, or find themselves on the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  blogger days. Other things are very different. I couldn't quite bring ... astronomers have just now started finding thousands of them. Or Evan. He's also ... develop an undying love - BRAINS AND ROBOTS. Or Prashanth (who I also lived

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  this. Or this. Sometimes MIT feels like one intense workout on a ... on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the ... to get sucked into the MIT mindset (or as I like to think of it, the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  things as seemingly objective as motion or time are influenced by how one ... matter whether you were accepted, wait-listed, not admitted, or even if you ... accepted, rejected, or waitlisted isn't the end of anything but a phase

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  UN conference. Though MITMUNC (pronounced mitt-monk), a 3 day Model UN ... close as Boston or Hopkinton, to those as far away as San Francisco, India ... ), or send Tammany Hall-era New York City into populist anarchy. Or, in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  is about. Or you may be entering into everything with an open mind and ... to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... screaming or shaky cinematography can quite do justice to it. (Nor can any

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  tests, APs, and whether you'd prefer Chem or Bio first semester. On the ... it wouldn't be a problem. A couple days later and my online schedule ... every month we have a paper due on one of about 30 topics (or you can make

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  MovableType publishing platform. Instead of being a website like blogger or ... photo upload tools, no font size tools, color tools, or anything of any ... . Any size differences, colors, or pictures you see are all hard coded in

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  in, or any other related activities or ideas worth blogging about ... -orientation program in the arts called the Freshman Arts Program (or FAP for short ... my closest friends did FAP with me, and it's great because to this day

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008