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  Christmas in December and July

  

  Market). Then we walked through Boston Common, up Beacon Hill, across the ... West. Plimoth Plantation, which is mostly closed for the season, was next ... answer my backlog of admissions-related questions. For a quick MIT fix

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... positively impact our students. That was one of those ‘ah-hah!!!’ moments for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  started typing up a draft for this post on my phone (which was originally ... , at 8pm you return to the Media Lab to finish up some notes and plan for ... would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  AGAIN FOR THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY WITH SOME MORE ... we did! The four of us mentally claimed our tickets for Waitress ... some authority told everyone in line that there was no point to wait for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  before going to sleep; I'm also planning to sign up for a reading-based IAP ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a ... , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... 'd be set for the rest of my life. The day before I left, we picked blackberries with my grandpa and built a tipi of sticks just the size for a four

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up ... pathos for the metaphoric childhood of a scientific field. Yet, as soon as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the summer in order to stay on campus. However, the opportunity arose for me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... freshman year, the freshman class council will email the class, asking for ... that in a country like Pakistan there isn't much opportunities for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which ... are currently four options for learning communities: Terrascope ... about DesignPlus, or D+ for short! As the name suggests, it’s oriented

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... than an hour), for a variety of reasons (maybe someday when you're older ... final which you have to make up a day before everyone else because they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  arrangements for vegetarians??" mudfud again comes to my rescue: "There are ... can get quite a wide variety of vegetarian food (and nonveg for that ... Campus) have really nice kitchens, so you can cook for yourself as well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  ... ------------------------------------- ola wrote, "I was wondering whether the 'creation' for the optional ... design for a spring musical along with a designer's statement? Or should I ... our faculty have specificallly asked for hard copy submissions, and not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006