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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  wanted to talk to me as a homeschooler. At some point, the organizer got ... friends later forced him to go to law school. And there were a couple of MIT ... to groovy concerts with! When you were a prospective frosh, were there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  . Last week, I attended a fascinating xTalk by Lou Guenier ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total ... it. I know I will be. Really bad photos to follow. Also, if you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can ... letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart ... students they meet. To give up a gorgeous weekend afternoon to sit in a meeting room in a library says a lot about their commitment to the process

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... . So I went to Amazon and complained and they said they would send a ... together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually ... . I had already committed to MIT prior to getting on the plane, so I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head ... conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you ... that you can't really get everything out of a movie by reading its ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things ... since my mad biology skills weren’t quite up to engineering a couple of ... into the dusky afternoon sky, and was hit suddenly and thoroughly by a

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  getting tough and you all have a lot to look forward to. I am going to miss ... wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to ... in your brain to fire in a way which destroys you: “He means the Word ... him to an idiot, a lunatic, a catatonic.” 1am: i climb onto my bed

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  /limerick composition; Person who posts the best one gets either a) a prize sent to him ... need to give you some context: a ridiculously eventful Thursday. A BRIEF ... due to the sleep deprivation. Not only did I have a powerful urge to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... than a sledgehammer, its collective love of the song "The Way I Are" by ... $10 a party for enough batteries for 20 people. Everyone gets their own

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  . Happy writing! Remember, make sure you get it to us within a week after ... this year!). So, here it is, the official "I want to write a guest entry ... . > Make it awesome! Nobody wants to read a boring blog entry about CPW

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  .012 last semester by dedicating a lot of time to it. Each pset was a ... /no record, so I could afford to get a bad grade. Wow grades are scary ... hard to figure out, use it in these three ways," and we didn't get a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational ... . You have the opportunity to go out and get a college education at a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and ... ? (looks at Frank) Didn't that one girl say there's going to be a guest ... nine celestial bodies you would run over with a fusion-powered trolley to

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  ) and I was heading back to the dorm. As I walked by the student center I ... 'll get to see Melis dance! I should probably blog this.* Me: "Absolutely I am!" I settled down and waited for the show to start. Since Melis is a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  by a long shot. It was great to climb in bed and read a few precious ... . Also, why does trial by jury not seem to be a thing? No witness testimony ... billed as evil. In a different story, there’s a woman who gets murdered by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020