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• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  the benefits and challenges of applying to MIT. This is the first ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... . I used to say "little" brothers but now they're both bigger than me ... did kill an extra large pizza from Papa Ginos during the first quarter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  biology, architecture and computer programming to design fashionable ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets ... program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones ... under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of ... new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  first African-American to lead Mission Control. [Listen to an interview ... 's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... Economics Department to receive the Clark Medal." According to Soundings

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a ... special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  first syllable. This brings us to our next example, Coeli's "Magkaibigan ... dalawa? The first word, magkaibigan "to be friends", has primary stress on ... it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  the first place. I try to make up for my lack of knowledge with ... whatever MIT has to throw at me. That last paragraph is supposedly my identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  cabinet connected to a bunk bed, that we opened when we first moved into the ... a direct connection to the main entrance. on the first floor, it led ... doomscrolling — but first and foremost among them, its architecture:  

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  was lunch time. We were promised $10, but first we had to demo the pen ... , started to worry when, after the first two spins, we'd given away two pens ... commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  had been introduced to the Asymptones for the first time via our ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of ... extremely quickly. Here is a list of blog posts I meant to finish, to no

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  experience my first DTYD this April!! Shirts/Shirt Names: The easiest way to ... manages to make MIT an incredible place even when it feels like everything is going to hell. [caption id="attachment_51263" align

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  ? Lillian: Well, why did you choose to work here in the first place? CJ: That ... 've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... … Xian: I used to worry about being the oldest intern in our cohort, since

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I brought nice shoes but there was no way I was going to wear them all day, so ... issues. It was hard to sleep on (bumpy) but we got some naps in. When the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... furniture, we eventually solved our first cube together. Yippee! It wasn’t as

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  Content warning: overt sexual content, reference to suicide. Last ... community, for members of the MIT community. This was my first year watching the Monologues, because I think it's also the first year that I know so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022