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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  education has been compared to taking a drink from a firehose, but that reason ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  stop by or don't have all that much time to chat. So, just who are the ... Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... great to see everyone. Note to '11s: Ben, Bryan and I are generally around

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  about it. This year, I'm going to be extra and do a bloggers wrapped ... At this point, Blogger Wrapped posts are sort of becoming a tradition, so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  thoroughness and rigor--but it is a window onto a truth that many of us like to ... class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... discussions, and is less likely to feel that she recieves due credit for her

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... that good stuff isn't handed to students on a silver platter, but for ... seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  hands. I wrote a note to my mailman, telling him to leave anything from ... understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  Here's a look at this year's incoming freshman class. Over the next week, we'll take a look at some of the individuals in the class... The MIT Class of 2010, by: Gender: Male 55% Female 45% Ethnicity: African

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  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

  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