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• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of ... pass that advice on in the posts to come. A visit to Boston to visit ... and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show ... programs, including a nice shot of MIT's own Elena Glassman '08 winning the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award at ISEF 2003 =) There was a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a long, long time. :-) I got here a little after 8AM, worked the registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  Jane W asked, Matt, I have a question about CPW. Will we know who ... at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a ... left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host

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

  Selection Day 2

  

  With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here's how selection works. We've spent a month reading and crafting great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Championship Series. My friends and I had planned a West Wing season premiere ... . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... wait until after Eid, so you can have your interview on a full, nourished

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a ... additional MIT QuestBridge Supplement. You do not need to fill out a first-year application if you are a Finalist; the QuestBridge application and MIT Quest
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in ... have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this ... married. I got a dog. I moved, once, and now I've lived in the same

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  I asked a bunch of people, professors, current and former students ... Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... !"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... staff, Hassan founded a “Hacker House” in San Francisco during the summer ... members to start a chicken farm in his home country, the Ivory Coast. This

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day ... people to wake up filled the stalls, and from them, a queue emerged. We ... shortest queue, and mumbled to him, “After you”, a way of securing our spot

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  ="Residential Exploration, better known as REX, is a multi-day experience for first year ... to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... at a table at Burton Conner, I decided that that was the dorm for me

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  recently, reflecting on his own Early Action rejection from a "dream" school ... may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process. I said I deserve it all I'm wakin' up at 6 a

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture ... . It was raining, and the Charles River was a churning, thick gray ... interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out disastrously and beautifully among a thousand students. Picture this: a group

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  my last concert with the mit ohms, my a cappella group, happened around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... proceeded without a typical sound company and did everything ourselves we

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  I first arrived at MIT as a tourist, a thirteen-year-old with glasses ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the website, you can see other people's comments, and write a comment yourself

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically ... ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you ... returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023