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• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  runs a little deeper than in many of the other kids that I have ... -grader, Boston school officials didn't know what to expect. They placed him in a ... .E.S.T.,[Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust] I would have not gone to a private school." At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  [email protected]. What can you expect from your interview? Well, it should be ... yourself. What do you like to do for fun? Why are you interested in applying to MIT? What might you be interested in studying? Those kinds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... ever read in my life. so it holds a lot of importance. i could go into ... myself in a book series and found myself revisiting throam. as i read, i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... Maneuver Silver Medalists![/caption] I debuted a new free program in ... with a friend visiting from the other coast over lunch in Central Square

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  minutes, before we continued walking. On Monday morning I got a haircut ... vertigo I've had checked out. The last time I've been to a physician of any ... things, maybe it wasn't a lot of time. What if I wanted it to be a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  Before you ask where my blog title ("The McGann Factor") came from, I ... nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... various divisibility tests. I wasn't certain, though, until I got to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... so cool. I sat in a lecture and it was! But dude. You can just drop a class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  set foot in Simmons was during CPW when I was given a tour around the ... college is quirky than by saying you live in a triangle? I had the room for ... fraternities, and then I made us Greek letters, and in a few days we had shirts

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  should give me a better sense of what forces come into play in both ... be nonsense. Junior year: Ha! A few days before classes started, I made ... ever, I found a couple of pure philosophy majors in a class; joining them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... in Salt Lake City. I decided I'd take in the sights before my meetings ... and Wyoming to be in attendance. I was lucky to have a great group of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  class since I've taken mechanics before a bunch of times, but unless ... It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  process is the same in this case. I get many questions about what subject ... ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  you go here). Today some grades were published. I got A's in Digital Poetry and Advanced Toy Design. I got a B- in my HASS class, Forms of ... 's what everybody else was doing. "I'm doing it!" I thought, "I'm doing MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  home, and what falls in between. And yet, while I stress about what I ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... events helped prevent its spread. In a situation like this, even the "best

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a friend. i was pretty confused, so i asked on twitter:  “a dilemma I ... ” with the fact that their work literally depends on it? when should i try

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  the blue skies above. I bump into a stranger after scrolling through my Twitter newsfeed for too long. I check Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr. Everywhere is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  /baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear ... assistance this Thanksgiving? One place to check out is Instructables (a ... project has to be the gravy fountain: what's more excessive than a giant pie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went ... first lab job. With the NIH experience under my belt, I got a UROP in ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  should take a shower and I take long showers so I'll get to bed at maybe 2:15 and I have to be up before 8:45 because I have a 9:30 class tomorrow and ... cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  and Bova in North End) Go on a bike ride through Boston (i recommend ... Bean Bags - pretty comfy the first few times I took a nap here. But after a few months I felt like they needed to be cleaned so I stopped taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021