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• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  across the globe will be hosting gathering for the Class of 2016, as nearby ... screennames to be in touch with fellow MIT 2015s! The MIT Reply Form: As soon ... the Medical Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... -written. Two of the forthcoming entries will introduce you to two new additions ... will be on August 12th. In the meantime, I'll probably be fighting off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  awesomeness that make me glad to be at MIT (not to mention projects like this ... In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  and theme of the 2021 Hunt. It will not contain any spoilers for ... we did not get to go on the final[annotation note="Shuli: the runaround ... Alan: This was one of the Students puzzles, which were designed to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  that being wet is bad! I will just enjoy the walk and not worry about the ... rain was annoying, but hey, it's not that far from the Davis station to ... think the lesson here is to be careful about how you time your travels

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  it's just not the path I want to take. A couple of years ago, the ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here. :) okay, maybe not... [that's Gullfoss in Iceland] We did a skit at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  prepare the student for admission to MIT. I will say that I did not ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a ... included) tend to be preoccupied with planning and order. The problem with

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , [annotation note="Which may have the qualifications to be a pandemic of its own ... .[/annotation] There's always some to be done. Nice! The timer went off. For my reward ... [annotation note="Because there will never be an available dryer in the same

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  speaker will be Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm ... I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours ... Grand Canyon may not be the longest or deepest or widest canyon in the ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  and Vik '22 and we're not really hoping to win the competition, we just ... printer to print out all the parts. [carousel image1="60227" image2 ... class she took last semester and will be TA'ing this spring. She hated

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  the chocolate while being unable to eat through the plaster. [carousel ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a tl;dr, here's the document I used to present my final project (edited

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  in a room that had begun to feel wholly not-mine. I remember the first ... [annotation note="funnily enough, the photos you leave behind tend to be the ... too scared to sleep in alone in the Dominican Republic. They were mine

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  or not you go to MIT. It's the truth." ... all of the letters first class, and I hope nearly everyone will have ... over the phone to the applicant only. People have asked about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  those who will venture forth to battle their finals throughout the coming ... the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of ... my camera having trouble focusing (not to mention coming close to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  long enough. Now they belong to the world, and the world will be better ... struggled, not always successfully, to resist the pull of the former in favor ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  about the students! Decisions are not yet final; the committee's decisions will be checked and reviewed over the next few days as we draw ever ... . [...] Now, she's teaming up with the American Academy of Pediatrics to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  , “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more ...  people whose selflessness towards protecting others will never be forgotten, along with the ... our society desparately needs to be having. I am hopeful that this will

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay ... 're still planning to be on schedule. Hopefully everyone would have their decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  - thursday - today's going to be working on the 6.004 lab all day. i'll have to ... because, well, why not. i'm choosing to spend more time psetting at sigep ... about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017