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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Biology (or take Physics)? 2. As mentioned above, she's planning to retake ... Math1 610 and Physics 590. However, all the other parts of application ... Math. I would love to study Physics at MIT, but I have only completed 4

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  colleges and universities, the high-priced independent counselors, the test ... people. This dream took many forms when I got to college - I played solo in ... College Confidential: October 05, 2005 One of the most linked-to writings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  letting her know she had been accepted to the university renowned for its ... Stanwood High, is considering studying physics and electrical engineering at ... technology competition at Washington State University based on their work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  modern physics provides is strange in many ways," said Wilczek, who spent the first part of his hour discussing the 5 percent of the universe we ... matter" like stars and galaxies. The other 95 percent of the universe is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  attend college. On September 8, 2006, four months after President George W ... University, where Rines had earned his JD. After a year in private practice in ... teaching intellectual-property law at several universities. While clerking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  -area colleges, including MIT, admitting students displaced by Katrina. Two students from Tulane University who will be at MIT this semester were quoted ... Tulane University who will attend MIT this fall, said the pressure will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards ... University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young ... reception, I stood as a representative of the first university to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  taking classes for credit at a local university? What should they do about ... fall semester university course results along with your midterm grades ... any spring semester university courses you might be taking. Ipsen asks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college [annotation note ... , but it is actually uncanny how déjà vu senior year of college feels. It ... after finishing all our college apps. But here we are, filling out

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  lot about it, too. I'm interested in physics, cognitive science and ... the University of Cambridge for a change of pace. Now that I'm back

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  ... but you should also research the weather. I am still mentally, physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent ... ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  next wave of applicants. "Just because you haven't heard of a college ... grown since college, colleges are changing and growing." So, current MIT students, when you made up your college list, did you apply to the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  , because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or ... studying in college in a big country, with my graduating friends flying to ... everything right now. after all, i’m not just physically separated from pretty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  always wanted to go to Hogwarts (college name pseudonym, for privacy ... her wherever she ended up going to college (she's now doing some crazy ... and THIS IS THE UNIVERSE TELLING ME NOT TO BE A PHYSICIST and WHY DO I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  On college applications, you’ll probably come across a question like ... tell you something….college was hard for people like me- the first ... bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  colleges: Rice University. I make no secret of the fact that I think MIT ... them once again for helping you with your college process. If they need a ... scores sent to MIT. Our College Board (SAT I, SAT II and TOEFL) code is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of physics. With his fists. - If, by some incredible space-time paradox, Chuck ... destroyed... unless it meets Chuck Norris. -There's an order to the universe

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  the talk was, "Rights and Responsibilities: The University Connection ... , scintillating equipment in the physics lab. That'll probably be a separate entry ... Physics lab. Oh boy, where would I even begin. Some of the setup (the MIT

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , Leeward Community College, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, I had ... -time, military veterans, my fellow public university and community college students ... was both working in the Navy full-time and attending college full

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025