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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  in their caseload. So our job is to look deeper -- what's really going ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... attended MIT in many, many years. Not many apply, but when they do, even if

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

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  an appreciation for the value of an MIT education. While I know the inherent value of an educational experience on this campus, I also believe in ... requirements for a degree. So students, as you are exploring campuses in the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  other way around. 7. Also, for all the hype, I think that Angel was in the ... they were going for some kind of "Angels in America" homage with the ... quite that much credit. 8. Speaking of famous people in the movie for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  at a company in exchange for that company funding your degree. I TA an ... between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... . Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  set up an interview January 1: Deadline for Regular Action ... them in time for our review. Mid-March: Regular Action applicants ... formula for getting in, and that, for the people who work in our office, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  days to come; thanks for your patience. In related news, I can announce ... on Monday, December 15th. In the next few days, we will send EA applicants an email on how to access the decisions online; I will also post a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the monsters in our closet ready to jump out at us. If you’re feeling like ... . You are very brave for doing so!   But if you get sad, let yourself

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  're looking for admissions officer blogs, look no further than MyMIT, where you ... (without logging in!) at my.mit.edu. I know this has been long requested by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon ... got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it ... jump right into French 2 for the next term.) I have a 150-175 word

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a feasible option, you'll need some better ideas. Looking at either Quinton

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... classes in 6 and 18, who went for systems, computational, and mathematical

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  emotions than an actual emotion. it's a purgatory in which you are stuck ... merged into one, in response to loss. the loss can be loss of a friend, an ... march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  So, a few weeks ago, Matt gave me an excellent idea for content ... was to upload [the banner for my blog back in the day before ... year, so look forward to similar entries in the future. Apparently I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  -teen looked like until I saw them navigating the cooridors and poking around ... . You may even recognize The Goober from his appearances in some of my ... 's "Can I play in the Simmons ball pit????" (Yes, my dorm has a ball pit

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  'll all come together in the end. I promise. I have a gift for this kind of ... , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... "dramatic lemur," and how some unnamed "people in the lounge" were concerned

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  the winning team in 2013']different name for each year of its existence ... kicked out in March, our[annotation note="which we use all year round for ... . It was very cool to have such an MIT-based hunt, like a whole round “in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for ... ." And what am I doing for Spring Break? Well, I'm not heading east like ... there? Well, there's beauty in the breakdown. At 5 AM, I'm leaving Burton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  in between when S(N) was exactly 80% of N? They're looking for more than just a yes or no answer here =) For those of you interested in ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  bloggers an email about a $10,000 scholarship for any bloggers who attend ... be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... getting in and not getting in, but you'd rather look your best throughout

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008