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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  . I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard Summer Admissions Institute since Sunday. It starts at 8AM with breakfast

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Sidebar: Visiting MIT this summer

  

  Timings for Boston-area Info Sessions & Tours, Summer 2005 Find below the timings for information sessions and campus tours at MIt & ... & August additional tours offered prior to Info Session at 9am and 1

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

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  at 55% male/45% female.     10 ... represented state, as usual, is California (12%). Number 2 is New York at about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  others whose decisions are mostly financial at this point, remember that ... hope is that everyone can end up at the school that is the best match for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The awesome folks at the East Campus dormitory built a giant hammock (!) stretching between the two parallel buildings. In this photo, you can see the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... going on at MIT today/tonight... check it out!

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

  More questions

  

  Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first ... programs for parents as well as students; parents are more than welcome at ... hotline at (617) 258-6085. Nbot1 asked, "Since you like Hindi music, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  when I look at your names in these threads, I don't see scores or grades... at all. Which is why it's sad to see you comparing stats and trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  Admits525438383 Well, there are two factors at work here. First, we are ... something like 2699). More later (off to dim sum at China Pearl!)...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at just over four hours. It was awesome. Fun, intellectual, inspiring. In ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  for introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an Advanced ... education back at MIT, and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  , I run into your doors like it's the first time, ogling at your immense ... cut short to direct my mother to the airport, do not fret at the sight

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a ... views forever (looking at you, Music Building; also MIT Nano is very cool

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  at least a little holiday joy and optimism (whether or not you ... annual Boston tree lighting across the river at the Boston Commons. I ... myself ice skating and get violently angry at how bad I am. [carousel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  at teaching, are very kind and I have been enjoying all my classes so ... about gravitational waves that Prof. H appears in at the very end, which ... I will leave it at that. quantum is certainly one of the classes of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  by R.F. Kuang about a young Chinese scholar studying at Oxford in the ... deep knowledge and his language translation research at Oxford University. Reading this book – imagining the young scholar working at a library similar

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  -shaped buildings arranged at odd angles between [annotation note="where large ... under construction since I started at MIT, and I’d often wonder what ... other at all. (Even with the door open, the sound you can hear in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that ... ’s something about traveling that I think can be fulfilling and scary at the same ... yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  with my rural Wyoming roots through my work at MIT. As someone who has made the journey from a rural upbringing to working at selective ... ="attachment_101809" align="alignright" width="190"] We got up at about 5 am to drive to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  life culture at MIT. Each booth will have club members there, so you have ... Internship Program through one of the undergraduates at a Course 17 booth ... meeting new people and asking questions instead. You'd be surprised at how

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024