Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  can also check out the Lingt website at http://lingtlanguage.com. I ... piece for y'all about his journey here at MIT. Enjoy! When I applied to ... years at MIT, I was sure of it. I just needed to learn Linux first

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... at MIT). But see for yourself. Below is the movie 4-145, then the real ... ? Well, as others have already noted, there is no class called 2.09 at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  space (an online "locker") and a website at http ... you are at MIT. This will be the name you give to faculty, future ... to reemphasize the no numbers or underscores thing. People (at least if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can ... . HELP!) Anyway, I'm externing at an economic consulting company, along ... am capped at this amount of information, I'll try to get some other MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  addition to more large-scale happenings at the List Center for the Arts, the ... exhibition preview feb 12; by Pedro Gómez-Egaña; at the List Center As part of ... Center website[/caption] From the website description: “[Gómez-Egaña draws

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  . The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the ... students be? According to Minerva's website, their admissions process will ... as a reasonably meritocratic mission, at least for an online university

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  you were at MIT?" I spent some time with both Architecture (Course IV ... information about me and my school and that I was chosen to represent India at ... immediately sent an e-mail to the Admissions Office. At this point, will you all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon. Except it’s not that simple. Some days, I wake up at 8 by some messed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  : Thursday night at 7:30, things get kicked off. The keynote speaker is Prof ... Services Session for Parents: Friday afternoon at 1pm, Director of Student ... , whys and whens of financial aid at MIT -- how we determined your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  . On a more personal note, it definitely wasn’t my best year, but here at its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... space and time and see the forthcoming events from the year, in at least

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  changing right before my eyes and there was nothing I could do about it. At ... more rarely, perhaps we would take a longer look at them. Scarcity breeds ... , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  with: "I will never stop being amazed at how lucky i am with flights ... plane So i might lose that luggage I look at her, tears in my eyes, and ... change my flight to a direct flight that arrives at O'Hare instead of the

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  address an email to Stu Schmill, Director of the Educational Council, at ... a person working in the MIT admissions office at a recent college fair I was at, and asked him about my SAT scores. I had always heard that a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT ... : because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just ... over the last twenty years, using Google Maps to see how far away common

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... are being noticed more than they really are']people don't look at you as

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : aka Course 9, my new minor, because everyone should take at least one class ... : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... Sheraton Hotel in Times Square and fed us at a $$$$ circus-themed French

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  's good at Google-fu, and you found something else you want to learn about ... can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a ... first blogged about this back in my first year at MIT, so this is a perk

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers ... Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  pointed at a post on Piazza (a website where students and professors get to ... at the first 6.813 presentation, and I will spend the next thirty ... project wouldn’t be too bad in Boston, but at such short-notice, we didn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  reread it and felt bouts of cringe, but it’s fine. They say cringing at ... . Suddenly, I no longer had that excuse. I did have time. At the same time, I ... ” calendar so I would see a completely blank slate. Google Calendar was stark

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023