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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... does it work? Don't I have to let other colleges know by May 1? Is it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  Last night, I attended the ceremonial unveiling of the design of the ... dark. Anyway, on to the pictures... I saw and got to chat with many awesome '07s, like Andrea (whom I forgot to congratulate for being one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  . Here, one team is working on "Drawing Conclusions I" (try it yourself at home!). Still trying to solve Drawing Conclusions I... Working on ... home. In my next few entries leading up to the Mystery Hunt, I'll link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... the Senior House dormitory), who snuck in just as the film began. I didn't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  (because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table ... geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... with my brother from Pennsylvania a week ago and I joined them on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... reason about them. So I thought I’d take the opportunity of doing something I never thought I’d do at MIT—giving you an intro to my classes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.   I continue to ... thrilled to tell me about their projects, and I wanted to try all the demos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  Update: although Pilot 2021 was canceled, I'm leaving the section about it ... a dining hall. I strongly believe that you shouldn't pick a dorm based ... me: I cannot cook. I had a meal plan during the first semester of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  students.” I was very pleased to endorse the report, along with more than 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... expect. I believe there has been a growing mismatch between what students

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  I've talked a lot about Tagalog, and Tagalog songs, on the blogs, so ... they're shared between many other Philippine languages, so I think it ... parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this time, but since I was staying on campus an extra day, I heard tons of students talking about the ongoing party. I had no interest in parties at the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... .[/annotation] Or, well, [annotation note="it will not be"]it will be when I post this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... last semester, over IAP, and basically until it was uploaded, and I ... /logistically difficult), and finally, this. Kristen did a bunch of thermo (0:07), and I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... -edge labs around campus. I have been UROPing since freshman spring, but this year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively ... without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for 8.03 (Waves and Vibrations) with high expectations. I was not ... education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... light pollution overhead until I was stuffed with numbness and murky starlight. Lately I've been tracing a trajectory through the last week of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• 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 ... ’re here to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come ... visit an archive to read the full story, but I've pulled out some choice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007