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  Quick updates Miscellaneous Admissions Office updates.

  

  A few quick things today: We have admitted 16 transfer students for ... 're waiting for a reply. Ditto on the comments/Questions Omnibus. It's still ... !Great entry by Mollie.Did you know that an MIT student is the No. 1 Scrabble

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... , once in mirror The glassy surface of the river reflects a portal to ... now, I have gone to sleep with a gentle tap on my window As the rain

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for ... half-floor suites. B entry has a common entry lounge on the eleventh floor, with colossal windows on two of the walls, and we also had a suite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  is by no means the end. Many MIT students have been deferred; you can ... may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call; that's okay

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 MIT Admissions Statistics Summary statistics from the past year.

  

  By popular demand, below you'll find admissions statistics from this ... summer. I also hope to post an enrolling class profile and more statistics ... ,370 students deferred to regular action 295 deferred applicants admitted during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over ... ... Guessers within half a percent either way [12378, 12502] were Anonymous (from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it ... their spring semester, before receiving a week of relief to recharge. Now ... I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling ... to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to ... out better, because the building has a cool structure, but it's hard to ... instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT. I have to tell you, this is one hell of a team. Every year I tell ... students to whom we do not offer admission today, we have placed a small ... ; You may log in using the same username and password that you use to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing to go to or from MIT...so I would, almost inevitably, forget one vital ... friend Waseem '07 introduced me to this little site he made, which has

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  this video a while back - I've watched it approximately 20 times since then, haha) My experiments are working! And as a result, I'm about to spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  omniwheels on him, and gave him a battery + eeePc. He's just now learning to ... important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now ... that we trained him to tweet whatever he's doing. So, if you'd like, you

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  : brownmityale.org These meetings will be a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a little about what makes it unique, and will also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  , L.A., San Fran, St. John -Award Tour, Midnight Marauders, A Tribe Called Quest Hello All! As you can see I'm taking the fight to the ... Theater pix, I'm a star! If you've seen the Bryan G. Nance show, feel free

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Matt McGann ‘00 Name: Matt McGann; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Hampton Bays, NY

  

  you speak the language, let's try to have a (very basic) conversation ... idealism & commitment to the mission of helping the world Favorite things about Boston: public transportation (I don't own or need a car!), the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  Commencement speakers, with a link to their speech: 2004, Elias Zerhouni ... I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  making it hard to blog right now. So, in order to not have to migrate n ... Charles in frustration over these EE bugs, this post is going to carry us ... and experience the Internet as it was before group chats: a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018