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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  !) Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and ... . Thus the Brass Rat was born as a tradition at MIT. And Wikipedia says

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  meantime I've finally responded to your most recent comments at the end of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  at work on his second novel. Another friend of mine from my undergrad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  hockey team were great fun, and every time I look at my Baker House ice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3

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

  2,822 applications

  

  nearer. Look for me in the crowds Thursday morning at the Macy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... student host didn't ask me what my SAT scores were. At MIT, people care ... . People at MIT don't compare GPAs (I didn't know any of my friends' GPAs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of ... little break from reading, eating some dumplings I bought down at Super 88 ... does the reading process work, you ask? I'll take the folders one at a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  All QuestBridge College Match results are announced in early December. At that time, there are three things that could happen: You could be matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social sciences. At MIT, we consider the humanities, arts, and social sciences essential—for educating young engineers, scientists, thinkers, and citizens
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  that non-traditional applicants take some college courses at a community
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school official at your school may submit your high school transcript
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  admission and select a major at the end of the first year with help from their
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  “from North Carolina”? A mainland girl at heart? Nothing can beat my dad ... [/annotation]. It’s hard to proudly claim the identity “American” when a guy at Mc ... ’s marching band uniform. I thought of waking up at 3 am to a “team alive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  innovation internship at the Boston Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center through ... rounding team at one of the VA campus hospitals, and visited the VA's Brain ... catch the 7:30 bus for the first leg of my morning commute. I shopped at

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  Admissions, helping to run these very blogs with Petey while also working at ... 're actively at MIT"]KERBEROS[/annotation] HAS BEEN CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING FOR ... communications for an oncology-and-AI research group at a big biotech company a few

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... chaotic spreadsheet, we’ve arrived at a (prospective) menu: Is it ... Foods to pick up our turkey–which, apparently, was NOT small AT ALL. Oh

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if ... , it's just because they are releasing the decisions on 12/14 at 12:14pm ... that-- my friends have become ghosts in my life. Or at least, they will

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the ... ="1000"] “[This painting] looks at how multiple things can be true at the ... stairwell, [created] entirely from vocal sounds that at times have an ambient

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024