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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  messy, so it was a little hard to take pictures of the steps along the way.... BUT my partner in crime Preeti '15 managed to grab a nice shot of our ... wants to have in Boston that day. Who knew it snowed in Boston?? (Just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT ... admission. I'm sure that among this group of students we weren't able to admit ... We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Carnival, The Inner Game of Tennis, the Spencer booksAdvice about applying to ... Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  . Afterwards, some students stuck around to ask more questions of MIT student ... top of a lounging student's head. A touch football game broke out on ... getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon

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

  Trp

  

  , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg ... ?) -- each of you come to us with a different story, and that's mhat makes this ... early 2169 students deferred to regular action Using my amazing powers of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  utilizing the online tracking system to ensure the receipt of application ... of the class I took. it changed from multivar to diff eq, so I wrote ... was a student of Raffles for 4.25 years before I shifted to India and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can ... Datebook" section of the Boston Globe: Teenage film buffs can go to MIT ... Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  morbid picture of MIT to you. Let me be blunt, my friends. There will be ... even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you ... definitely not unnoticeable among the masses of people who obviously slept the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  backdrop. Picture perfect, of course. I began to forget about weather ... I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... sometimes the things that you are most scared of turn out to be your biggest ... nights I've trudged back to New House in the wee hours of the morning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I ... and wonderful people in the world, some of which are also going to MIT ... in a lot of pain, but she liked talking to me and I liked talking to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off ... : (I was supposed to be a Wellesley girl.  No, I was not prepared for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  they have some sort of puzzle, and i didn't really have time to think of ... on mae, who recently dropped out of college and moved back to her ... 's been gone. so one of the themes the game touches on is what it's like to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this ... Nicole R. asked: "What have been some of your favorite classes at MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  .’ But I wasn’t that brave. I was lucky to find that one of the reputable parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people ... have not, of course, spoken to a single Course 2 whose eyes light up when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... line coming out of the electron pointing to the next       orbit.   ... whiteboard. Her back is to the panel and we can see an angled side portrait of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... mid-June. I flew to Geneva and then took the train to Lausanne. I lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  on a test that had not yet been shown to be a good indicator of a ... Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... tiles that indicate the entrance to the red line. I thought of October of ... person, now, in any number of ways, if I had to replay my life. More

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025