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• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... , admitting 16, with 14 enrolling in the fall. This season's admits are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  different. In terms of classes, this upcoming semester is going to be my most ... dresses up nice and goes out to dinner. I'm sure this list will get longer ... quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  three minutes (shouldn't you be in class?), we're trying our best to get ... there are lots of credentials to process." In short: don't worry yet about ... Science Talent Search today: good luck!Still to come, whenever I get time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can ... valedictorian at Lucy C. Laney High School. He plans to major in electrical and ... Heads To M.I.T By Fraendy Clervaud WJBF News Channel 6 Reporter June 4

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the ... clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to ... 't scary. But, as we grow older, we learn how good it feels to be the best at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that ... stuck in your head for days on end, returned to conducted the BSO (he was the principal conductor from 1980 to 1993) in a special event called

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The ... as you go, what could be better? Once/if you get to the finish, which

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  which someone from the office will show me how to improve my resume. Then ... I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough ... opportunities (like what I did in my last two IAPs), to work on projects (both ... three different IAPs in three different countries. I think it'll have to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to go to bed early. This is all pure speculation, of course. But in the ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in ... eager to begin his career in the United States Air Force, was now standing

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  and space. But thanks to modern technology (particularly, in this case ... reason to share otherwise, and little captions of what was happening in ... , unimportant things, and see how they were sometimes tied to big, important

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  about our students—how interesting they tend to be and how interesting ... Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... 's Writing and Humanistic Studies department. Dr. Boiko wanted to tell me about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  there was a massive photo flurry. I didn't get to be in the pictures since ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group ... ), Burchards is designed to be an "intellectual feast of the greatest minds in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  cancelled. I will now be getting home almost 4 full hours earlier than I originally expected! Yippee! Right. Well, my train leaves in just over 2 hours, and I have a few things to finish up here before heading home for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  made such comments to explain why they didn't get in. I wish it didn ... mean, I think we all do. No one wants to get on a stage and forget their ... 've heard in a while, so for every person who got in, there had to be a reason

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the ... the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  stamps for us to spam irreverently. We proceeded to arrange them in every ... signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  involved in me getting to the office. ~ And most importantly ~ - The first ... , and I'm still not done with work. - I went to get an eye exam at a ... right now?" "Uhhh...in your room?" "Nope. At the theaters. About to watch

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• 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