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• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  the MIT server, but most can also apply to other servers of the game ... with a degree. There are also a number of subquests for the main quest ... , sleep (pick two). Right now I have all three - a wonderful group of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  School College: University of Michigan, 1995, English Language and ... (who have the best record in baseball right now), the University of ... Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  schools like Bx Science and Madison. Since none of them prepared speeches ... because of which they offered him/her a slot - that is nothing to scoff at ... NYC admitted students meeting was nothing short of amazing. A lot of it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  incredible amount of math and science in four years without any upperclassmen ... frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... ). I'm not a very good photographer, but here are a few images of campus ... attendance, including: Political Science department head Prof. Charles Stewart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs can't teach well!! They're brilliant, of course, in research ... , for the record, I don't believe that 80% of Caltech's professors can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  Ah, how I've missed blogging. I fell off of blogging in the last two years of being an undergrad. I just couldn't get myself to write as much ... took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... volunteer at the MIT Science Olympiad. Being on the other side of all the ... ’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... for Hank, and he had answers. What is your favorite topic of science or ... science, and I also watched a ton of SciShow as a young boy, hoping it would

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  experience with another year of mathematical maturity and computer science ... visit the computer science office to discuss my prospects of double ... 't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  best of the best, and I figured it was worth a shot to apply. I’m so glad ... getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  science/technology, but also a very strong interest in some aspect of the ... classes in the science that I find really interesting, from the plethora of awesome science classes that MIT offers. How do people not majoring in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students during regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  , theoretical computer science, or biomedical applications of EECS), and the ... 6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  Sciences, a former admissions officer and current employee of Open ... and department head of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ... neighborhood where you'll find CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, is actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  . Full disclosure, I didn’t get admitted into any of the schools I applied ... about as I was exactly two years ago? Some of you probably are. Some of ... of writing excessive amounts of fanfiction, so I was pretty excited to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  continues in parallel is the financial aid process. For those of you applying ... "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of ... funny way of working themselves out. I’m definitely applying to MISTI ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in physics. During his time at the University of Chicago, Mohamed realized he ... mater, the University of Chicago. “I know that department, I know the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025