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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  recommendations, browse on over to Mitra's blog (this week: Thai food at Chili Duck ... should read the Nick Hornby novel on which this movie is very loosely based

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  reception, so I got on my mobile phone and called Nightline, MIT's peer ... on serious issues like stress, depression, sexuality, etc, but to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the office. Mostly, we're catching up on work, answering individual questions ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  they will meet you when you arrive on campus. A note on your host: We did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  to "proove" to you that it's not a reflection on you, rather it's an ... come to that conclusion on your own. As you know from some of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... have some waitlist admits. Whether you stay on the list or not is a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  know that there are four different states your interview can take on the ... 'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  wait until after Eid, so you can have your interview on a full, nourished ... is completely optional): "On a separate sheet, show us and/or tell us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  go much smoother. Then, you choose two "full” experiments to work on ... didn’t think I was a “real” physics major because I liked hands-on work ... the lab staff were excited about hands-on work. They talked about real

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  profits to charity, posting thoughtful weekly vlogs — the list goes on. I ... optimism each week in a mediascape that often thrives on negative news ... critically and broadened my perspective on the world. I look forward to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  ="87585" /] Animating (A note on OpenToonz) Isbla: We used OpenToonz, which is the free ... duration of frames and layers. The moment I saw “Studio Ghibli” on Open ... pencil from now on because I’m also interested in learning 3D stuff…  Kai

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  Pi Day celebrations on March 14th to the Simpsons, even. Pi is a number ... ="aligncenter" width="724"] all diagrams are drawn by yours truly on my mit ipad. i ... , but a circle is the only two-dimensional figure for which all points on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  unleashes a poisonous yellow gas on 1800s Seattle. Anyone who breathes it is ... going on. The story is told in both the mother’s point of view and the ... scientists’ expedition. I read this: on the plane ride to Cambridge. It’s 150

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  journal. The author, in fact, is Albert Einstein, and the paper is “On the ... your manuscript, “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies”, we encourage ... these comments as a negative judgment of your scientific abilities; on the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  on couches, bothering my roommates, and contemplating life in this ... on another animated series with Netflix so I'm really excited about ... focusing on is their old gaming content. [embed]https://youtu.be/_8JZER7TRg

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  amount based on employment through the school year and on expected savings ... physics classes. The students in the class of 2022 and 2023 were put on an experiment, where they could choose to take three of these on Pass/No Record

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to ... . She describes the gap between what you write on your application and ... we did in high school. Everything we wrote on our applications came

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  , organizing logistics for MIT Science Olympiad, sailing on the Charles, and even ... -tripping to Vermont for a [annotation note="The Great North American Eclipse on ... with it. I started off mindlessly scrolling on my phone then decided I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  the resources we wish we’d had when applying to college and deciding on ... went on campus tours, interacted with student ambassadors during Q ... knew about them came from movies or TV shows. But unlike what I saw on

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025