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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  more on Dheera's website) In my transportation seminar, we ... hours when you consider the hours in advance you have to spend at the ... that turns out. How are your applications going? The folks in admissions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  get you in. "Another issue is related to interviewing in India.Here in ... since childhood I have been dreaming to go to MIT ..in fact go only to MIT ... the Computer Club.Actually,what I want to know in a very straightforward

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  interviews that ranged from the inane to the interrogative (often in the same ... of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of ... in fact a terrible way to pick a college, and I soon transferred. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... calling your school to get them. For other students whose grades have been ... is an aberration in the midyears. At this time, due to the continued

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  and showed up to exactly one meeting, in which a crowd of student ... about the action.” To which I respond, “How clever of you, I was just ... students to study and design technology for developing communities in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of ... finished. I want to hear about how the semester’s been tough. Heck yes I want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  , helping everyone in the Cambridge area get their data where it needs to be ... Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... down, and they found out just how useful it was to everyone else. Today

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  past year getting to know each other, and I'm glad we'll have to next ... sometimes, you want to be a little subtle in your MIT pride, while still ... website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... change from a D to a B, shhhhhh.) I'm excited to see how the institute ... 're interested in and excited about that don't have to do with classes. The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  with students in a 2000 pilot program that allowed up to two dozen cats ... pets in dorms, and the number of pet-friendly schools appears to be on ... droppings in common areas. College officials have also had to call animal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and ... you have to type this information again and again and again, in various

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  . Supposedly, students that are accepted to MIT are “well-rounded.” In reality ... could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2 ... of how I could use the course material to design it. Stress, beam

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  year, respect their time! Try to get your application components to us in ... interest to early and regular action applicants. For Regular Action Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... data, so I forced us to play six more rounds in which I recorded some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... 've decided to abandon my usual rhetorical grace in favor of simply insulting ... parse it in the imperative mood. As in, “Welcome MIT families to our

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to ... help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from ... entry to mention a great school that often gets overlooked by students

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  89%) in O levels and 4 As in A/S level is how much likely to get ... feel compelled, and you think it would help us get to know you in the ... your question is more in-depth, you may wish to call the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006