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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  varsity sports teams (tied with some school up the street, I've heard, for ... rate is consistent with the national average for 18 to 22-year-olds -- any analysis which suggests otherwise fails to properly account for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little ... took us all to Jillian's for some fun and food. It's a pretty rare ... even cooler for their car. And even more cooler than that because they

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... them in future entries. For families who have already visited, feel free

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people ... thing. I am not exactly a traditional student, though for a while I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  about 40-50 students, so I figured 60 students would be a safe guess for ... . Wow! Thank you all for coming! As you can see, the restaurant was ... to be a relatively quiet time for admissions officers now?? Thank you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  mean for you? Well, you'll have an MIT email address, MIT web space ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting ... still refer to me by my username. However, when I started to apply for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but ... opportunities for you to learn about the different departments. At CPW (on Friday ... majors they are considering during their second term. For example, in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  just assumed the Red Sox were winning, for no particular reason)) and ... presentations on MIT each year. And, for the most part, I'm generally discussing ... time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to be done for comedy, or to emphasize the sad; rather, there is an ... spring, briefly joined Next Act, a show performed in Next House for CPW ... myself into doing it"]sucker me[/annotation] into auditioning for Next Act

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... way I do. I cook because it is the perfect hobby for a busy lifestyle ... got a perfect score on whatever exam you have to take for dental school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more ... apologize for my terrible handwriting[/caption] But should we use a diameter for our circle constant? After all, most geometry classes introduce

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... cacti with arms, pronounced ‘sah-WAH-row.’ Thanks for coming to my desert ... was talking about would pass (ha). I was eager for college and hungry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... for an app, I did practice technical interviews (though I didn't get any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  very similar for both. Let’s go through this diagram, skill by skill ... was a super fun class! We also signed up for 21W.744, The Art of Comic ... Comics class at MIT, but got more of a grasp for this skill in the two

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  energy and attention on training for the US Championships, taking place the ... ice, and as I left for Switzerland, I used that time away from it all to ... years back, to help arrange ice time for me with her coaching team. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  , for example, is Maia: the oldest sailing sister. She gave birth to ... outside. 76ºF (24ºC, for those of you who are like me) and cloudless. It ... housing process like for your dormitory?" or "what is the difference between

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... far as healthy food goes -- if you shop for yourself, Cambridge is full ... tries for healthy and tasty. As far as eating official Campus Dining food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to ... . I found out later that my mom, after waiting half an hour for me to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this ... -budget startups and nonprofits to pay me something resembling minimum wage for my ... was incessantly annoyed with one of them for forgetting his kitchen

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024