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• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  might want to be thinking about: If you haven't yet done so, set up a My ... get very busy this time of year, respect their time! Try to get your ... , submitting your Part 1 now isn't a bad idea...] As the year draws to a close

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  ?? I'm a dominican boy who wants to get into MIT after finishing ... out? The website just says 'July'..." We expect to receive this year ... , you don't apply to a specific department, but rather to MIT as a whole

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of ... thought after signing up for a 10 pm trip last Thursday to Wallace ... Perseids meteor shower, like a celestial garbage truck stopping by Earth on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy picture above. Now, I know that it was really a trick having to do with

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  't to produce a perfect fish website, it was to simply resolve my ... gets a good grade, impresses the teacher, and allows you to learn the ... programs with esp again, i'm on the gph writing team, i'm trying to keep a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap ... the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to ... to catch them, though, it may help protect fish by enabling ... Pinkett: The Tech: Once you leave MIT and get out into the real world, to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  freshmen get assigned to not only a regular advisor but a resident advisor ... opportunity to get advice from an adult and a wise upperclassman. Also, the ... I should be filling out an absurdly long form so that I can get a pre

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  school students, run by our math department) are partnering for a new ... the opportunity to collaborate on a large research project with top ... Solving are working together to create a place for students to experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  set to a wide range of modern music. We begin by teaching you the calls ... -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  the colors around you to paint on a screen. Kids get to run around and ... technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  ) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, brought to you by the MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). Long-time blog readers may remember that last year around this time I attended a free sneak

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  questions as I can. It's a long entry! Before we get to that, though, I have ... unless I order a rush report I don't think it'll get sent by the deadline ... someone *cough* me *cough* was to get a 650 on MathIIc on his best sitting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  intentionally, I just ended up tearing up when trying to explain a situation. I ... figured out by now. “It’s okay for everything not to be fine.” I found my ... . The need to look young and beautiful is a shackle, the kind that you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  teacher. Here, whenever I get the chance to go to a party with dancing, I ... put up a website instructing you to "Love Music, Screw Pirates." Within ... how to dance. You know what that means? When you go to a party and there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  ’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown ... , getfit@mit encourages MIT to exercise regularly, dangling a grand prize and ... ,000,000 minutes of getting-fit-@-MIT. Those are some big numbers. It’s easy to see

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The ... of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... route divides into three affording a huge number of options for teams to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  very outdated website here: It's almost exactly one year old! I get a ... discussed over a dozen times by various bloggers, websites, and other people ... different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008