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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  many true obligations and Places You Need To Be At. Even when I was ... the most part, I had to be at work from 10AM-6PM, Monday through Friday ... May hit, the summer was approaching, and the days remaining at my job

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• 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 / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the ... ."]jira,[/annotation] [annotation note="the most commonly used website for version control

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  "talented and gifted children." Other than being REAL GOOD at reading, I didn ... environment, the basis of which was developed here at MIT. I spent two more years at the camp, taking more programming classes (including my first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  . We consider one applicant at a time, in their own context. In your case ... really make something of that time? "MIT 09er who's not at ISEF" wrote ... class?'" No, no, no, not at all. You were admitted because we know you are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  , 2021 at 5 pm EST, if I actually post this on time - I will no longer be ... MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... through empty halls at night; a cappella practice; a fun party; random dumb

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... using much energy at all. And by locking their wings, they can rest and ... facts at a blogger meeting early in the semester, I left the admissions

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024