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• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  selective universities, for the most part, hasn't changed. And with new ... & committee process is not based on high school, or city, or state

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  Engineering department, informing me that I needed to fill out my degree ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... your name will look like on the degree, but...let's not jinx this, okay

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer ... -degree sauna into a 36-degree river. So, I hope you don't mind me writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  & PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 14% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 19% Abroad 10% States represented 49 Countries represented 49 Schooling: Public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending ... friendships for a degree, but I think you have to understand there's much more ... universities I applied to. Everyone at MIT was so open and accepting of people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  closer to the universe, and the universe closer to me. About halfway ... that may not involve a graduate degree in physics. In the past, many

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  if it isn't flawed, then you probably don't need a Bachelor's Degree ... one question : Do you know Sharif university in iran? is it good?" I ... thousands of universities across the world, and I know of only a small

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  didn’t let myself be seen as dumb in homework sessions. So… I faked it ... , I found that “faking it” worked. a) My first year I went straight ... least could be,  Good at math. That wasn’t easy to find, but "faking it

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  ; Plains States 13% South/Southwest 8% West Coast 18% Abroad 13% States ... Least distance traveled: Cambridge, MA The only two US states not represented: Montana and New Mexico The most represented US state: California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  The selection process at MIT is holistic and student centered: each application is evaluated within its unique context. No school, state, or regional quotas are applied; neither is preference given to those with alumni
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  more detached to reach the state i am at now, where i feel comfortable ... media because you’ve never used it are extremely different states of being ... different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... don't like to sit still. So, about a month after my return to the States ... around the southwestern states as you learn to fly. So, I flew over the

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm ... 's Solid State Chemistry - comes close). The huge size of this course ... emerge if one studies the behavior of states in relation to one another in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  SCP universe, named after the eponymous SCP Foundation, a secret ... . What if there was an in-universe explanation not just for why superpower ... memory of how they got there. This turns out to be the ideal state of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  theme: the United States’ 2016 election, police brutality, progress in the ... such events as the University of Missouri incidents in November ... events highlighted across college campuses such as the University of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  Cambridge University as a whole, but instead apply to a specific college, of ... , you pay tuition to your home university, but room rent to the university ... national and personal ideals and the state of the world. However, people here

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  & PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 10% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 21% Abroad 11% States represented 49 Countries represented 63 ... , MA The one US state not represented: Wyoming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008