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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  below in the comments, all the way through midnight tomorrow... If you haven't yet replied: As soon as you've made up your mind for sure about ... 's okay, we know you're making the best choice for yourself), or to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  in the forgotten mists of 2004, I was editing the newspaper, the lead in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the ... Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does ... decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man ... " YES! So as college students, we're constantly looking for deals, and we

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  come late for it? as in late friday night, all of sat and leave sunday ... only admit freshmen to begin in the fall semester. We admit transfers for ... remember the applications of rejectecd applicants for a subsequent year? In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  've been helping out with research for the past two semesters, today just ... 's relentlessly positive attitude towards everything in life no doubt helped him earn his PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. It also might have helped

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for ... It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... consistently for the past two weeks, and I’ve realized that after 2 years, I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional ... Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my ... since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... situation especially bittersweet. for me, it's my former dorm, Burton Conner

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

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  to qualify for ISEF a few months later, which that year was in LA. I ... many intersections in MIT for you to explore. You’ll eventually know ... ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  my housing choices for the lottery. I was placed in Senior House, which ... were? I even ended up living in her suite for REX week (affectionately ... most of the discussion, given that I had only been in an MIT dorm for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a ... to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... with three of my friends from MIT also externing in the city for the ... 2016 into several boxes. I left it all behind in Boston as I embarked on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  undergraduate education in the case of an undergraduate student or by the dean for ... carries no credit for the subject. However, the faculty member in charge ... advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... network for a summer internship and scheduled a second meeting in a few days ... out at all for me.  But in the end, with help and advice from Kirsten L

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT ... that I would see them in five years when they would all come back to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  Media Lab) for the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts ... involvement in the arts, MIT has a lot to offer. Aside from the numerous student programs and activities, for-credit visual arts/music/theater arts classes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  Oberon's orders. In addition, the words of the play haven't been changed except for a few brief instances where the actors have added in ... in the world of the play. For example, there is a palpable mood

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  -school senior, I enrolled in Harvard's Secondary School Program for four weeks ... in the lab, whose passion for their research was blatantly obvious ... '11), Andy, Liz (USC '11) Now, two years later, I'm back in Boston for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  an academic look at topics in popular culture. For example, this term ... headed over to room 26-100 to get in line for a sneak preview of the new ... ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007