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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer ... fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And ... , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse ... tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to ... pleasantly surprised to find some breaking news. While attempting to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  've seen both of them present before on other topics, so I knew to expect ... case. Need blind admissions have allowed more students to have a chance ... students from across the country and across the world routinely apply to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

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

  International Selection Day 1

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to ... choosing only 100 students quite difficult. Already we've had to make

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes ... 's mad as hell because he didn't need to waste 2 months on ISEF research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  quite busy here in Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4 ... entry, I'll be going home to relax tonight. Things are starting to get ... to take this class; it's really awesome. Are there any classes you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... that definition, there are two very important things to remember about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... , with no Central Meetings to do, I'll get to catch up with some friends ... building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  job, I am frequently asked to tell various chapters of my life story ... , Our Lady of the Hamptons. I then made the big leap to the public high school (my graduating class: 65 students!), and managed to take all three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  /principal to leave spaces blank on the form. Please ask your counselor/principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades if available). We also accept the high school transcript alone to
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly ... very happy and full to see this project go public and I hope you love it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... also simply awesome beyond all reason (koodos to Cross Products, muy ... attempt to personify a big, philosophical theme into a “smell”

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an offer which I gladly accepted (taxis from Logan to campus often cost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  2016. Today Claire has achieved her dream and is goin to share this ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this sneezing puppy long enough to ... decisions online next Thursday, 12/15/16, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To ... your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a strong appeal to emotion (pathos). Sometimes he focuses much more heavily on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a student, I did not want to be a doctor when I grew up.) As a result, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016