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• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  with you all, some for the first time, and some to continue our ongoing conversations. So, look for me, Ben, Daniel, Mitra, and more on Saturday night ... together a guidebook, and answering a giant stack of email. It's going to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  school robot team, at home with a brush and canvas, or in the garage with spare parts and a tool box. Grommit had 5 questions, for which I have ... best place for some people and not a good match for others. And really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... for students, teachers, and others to complete their materials, and that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  interesting nonetheless, which is a story for another day. Anyway, armed with ... looking at a full shelf of textbooks and only moments away from running ... Squalor was, and why it was so funny. Zach gladly obliged and showed me a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  think is a widely applicable skill. I'm looking at my deck with seven ... is that you end up with a deck with a bunch of Claw cards and card draw ... regularly in a Discord server I was in, and I thought it looked fun. Early in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... , and a bunch of awestruck students breathlessly explained, "OH, he came to my school once to give a lecture, and I could totally tell that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... /week) Being a DJ/producer/OTA engineer for the third year and programming co-director for the first year at WMBR (~4 hrs/week) Copy-editing and regular

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  winners and Hugo Award winners. My advisor had worked with PBS and Nova for ... with and learning from a Pulitzer Prize winner that had been my professor ... entertainment and moved to LA in April. I've started working with a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  ", rather than "cure cancer" is a lot easier for me to work towards and agrees ... Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  , and how to color match a Patagonia jacket with an Arc'Teryx backpack ... *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... , and across rivers with the MIT Outing Club (MITOC) (4) Eat BLT. The

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of a time ... I have to focus on projects for both the office and for myself. You ... this fall, in a conversation with [annotation note="Fellow blogger, and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer ... and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited ... words or with common logic. Who is asking to read LaTeX and then going

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... Hello Friends! I am back with my biweekly vlog update, quite late because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I've been

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  . (For more about IAP, see my former entries on IAP 2007 and 2006. So what ... museums, attending theatrical performances, and more, all entirely paid for ... Paris have worked with this program for several years now to give the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  curiosity and an urgency to try again and again. There was a craving for the ... -marathon with me, but Tara and Cathy opted for two times the suffering (buy one ... got crushed by a particularly awful week with a nasty exam and my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  now. i go to bed at like, 3 or 4 and wake up at 12, which is still a ... have some sort of media that i was obsessed with and clearly brought me a lot of joy. for a while it was chinese webnovels, and then it was my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... , defer, deny) is. Because we have a clear idea of what we are looking for ... Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  -binding) vs. RA, and thus no advantage or disadvantage to applying for either ... decision-making process. MIT’s Early Action program is both nonbinding and ... Early Action/Regular Action isn't a big decision at MIT. There's no
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  CodingBat and also looking up basic Python projects for beginners. I ... , where I made this rudimentary text-based adventure game and also played a ... describe it, other than that you can put it in a Venn Diagram with my other

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Bay have incredible views and great parties along with it. 3. The Mass ... , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008