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• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational ... the meeting, the ECs had the opportunity to address the audience. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  to get work done. I found that the best test of whether I really ... Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... /No Record is a great time to do this – to adopt the “I want to be busy, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  moved all the way across the country, from Southern California to the DC ... to 9am, which I...was not awake for. We all started the day by working ... up to drive us to Best Buy for our HDMI cable and to the grocery store

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... some way to recreate the joy of in-person science bowl in a pandemic ... competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  , including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get ... across the Taiwan Strait to, well, Taiwan, home of the world's best shaved ... engines. I think we need to admit more people from Thailand =) The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  loves the Rolling Stones, is neither quiet nor behind-the-scenes by nature ... . "Marilee is really getting at how these students feel." The issue hasn ... ," Thacker said. "It's just the way she's put together: There's a glow to her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  final choice and know that we wish you all the very best. After getting to ... got all the way to California. Every day for weeks I was the one who ... mad that I didn't get into that third school...maybe MIT wasn't the best

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... way to burn out, and is probably a sign that you have been poorly managing your time since the beginning of the semester. (Note to future self

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is ... . Another deterrent to unsavory characters is the campus police force. They

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... , this is likely to be the case for you as well ... better place. Remember that there are many ways to make the world better

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  definitely the way to go!" Arthur '61, NY: "As you know, there is intense competition in getting into MIT and you should want to put your best foot ... about how the interview is an effort to get to know the student as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  ) flew by quickly. That is until we got to the arachnids exhibit (finally ... all decided to get fruit juice at some random juice bar in the middle of ... heated debates about these questions; drop your best arguments in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  there is no direct way of getting criticism on the blogs, I am usually my ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  . How You Can Get Involved As of now, the server is restricted to the MIT ... maintenance is required for something of such a huge scale, so the ways in which ... virtual events to be held on the server. Indeed, once the map is complete

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , and having the majority of your time be consumed by one person is not ... how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is ... relationship early into the semester is a very convenient means of hindering your

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by ... So it's mid July, Summer is well underway, all the major Holidays have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  related to IQ. It is, however, the most common learning disability, at MIT ... switch letters as they first learn to read, and that the difficulty is not ... , pronunciation of those words is unique to the individual. We use these nuances in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse, across the street from Burton-Conner (not to be confused with the Sailing ... team in the middle of Colorado. Prior to crew, I never thought I could

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... the homework, the pace is forced to be slow enough that you can still ... designed to be doable--and this is by no means a bad thing. It's important to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015