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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  selective universities, for the most part, hasn't changed. And with new ... 's easier than ever for excellent students to apply to and choose a school ... Question #1, I'd love to get Parent Question #2 (and 3, 4... n).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  free items in building 66, from which I managed to procure this shiny new ... desk a few days ago only to discover that the mechanism for opening the ... On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  friend Chris '09 back to Plymouth with us -- his dad works for the ... silly for him to fly all the way back there just to turn around and fly ... Chris to good old American consumerism. I bought presents for my mom, my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... comes out of the Human Dynamics Group, run by Prof. Sandy Pentland ... are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  excited. Excited because I'm always excited for a chance to learn new ... family. Then I flew back to campus for three weeks of IAP, which I filled ... . To get interesting things done, and go interesting places, solely

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them ... some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... -- which tell students that they're likely to get admitted -- to "love

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways ... *bassoonist* for advice on what size cup to get. We laughed in our failure ... collision data to advocate for active transportation infrastructure introduced

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  learning algorithms developed for language to predict SARS-CoV-2 mutation and ... such a threat to humanity * How vaccines are designed * What the new ... A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the ... sadness by not responding to anyone for a week and playing a LOT of ... parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first ... next batch came out fine. But then I ruined them by trying to turn them ... of the new ones. You might be too young to remember this (oh God), but

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of ... likely receive the NBM® a bit later to allow time for this. 4) The vast ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  advice for the wandering undergrads including, "apply to grad school, even ... up and configured and the new linux computer polished up and ready for ... able to do any work at all. Also, we have a totally sweet new 3-axis

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  to continue their D-Lab projects for longer than three semesters - such ... , takes the principles of D-Lab: Design to a real-world level by showing you ... trouble for the group, until finally they were presenting the charcoal to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  's trip to Australia, when he claimed it for England and named it New South ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but ... lunch, go home, study for standardized tests, IM friends, get into college ... Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the ... 's generally the same day they're passed out. That means you get one week to ... . That means instead of a week, you actually get like, 3 days. And by three

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  to Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, so while the sweet ... V-Day, I'd like to put in a plug for MIT's production of the Obie ... , couples (yes, there is dating at MIT!) will get all dressed up and venture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  determined by investors and venture capitalists, and it is only meant to serve ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... to conclusions without worrying too much about rigor. for example, i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  these blogs are for, right? These are supposed to give you an inside look ... , after which I have to run to Target and go shopping for pants and for toy design stuff. Then I run back to the dorm, finish my psets and study for my

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... character-building stories are for bloggers who secretly want to be Charles ... ) can score an online reservation for Jean-Georges and expect to be served

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009