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• Blog / Admissions

  Your Freshman App Questions We're happy to help.

  

  Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. As you know, the MIT Freshman Application is available at MyMIT. The Early Action ... Application section of the site. I am happy to answer your questions (that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  've passed all of my classes, so that means I am officially done with ... ? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts, but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  When it comes to housing at MIT, you've got quite the array of ... love Simmons. I like being able to come "home" at the end of the day and ... ? There's East Campus. Dining plan got you leery? Cook with your friends at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action: Decisions Now Available An announcement.

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the class of 2015 are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your My

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  great dome, and a peek at what the dome looks like up close. I'm not aware of any video anything like this existing anywhere, it's a real treat

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  New year's eve here in Karachi. Assault rifle fire is really loud. I can hear the pings of bullets landing in the street. As long as the ... , good luck, and feel free to email me at the address in the banner. Have a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind is upon us. My last final is tomorrow morning (exactly 12 hours from now) and I have not yet begun studying. That's right, not even looked at

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  someone. 3:57 AM In Bed. Will wake up at 8 am and read it over one more time. Good night everyone. I'll post the final version of my thesis

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Somewhat Random A little news bite.

  

  several other appearances in my time at MIT: I was pretty excited when Book 6 came out. And I also wore rockstar sunglasses when the Goblet of

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic ... Tech, MIT's student newspaper -- you can see those comics and more at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  at its finest Supposedly it provides 1/3 of all the electrical power to ... of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... middle of Boston Harbor. Why? Well, sometime over the summer Conner 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... fend of fictional post-apocalyptic bad guys. At one point he asked the ... , sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  bouncing at the thought of seeing animals alongside going on fun rides. We ... mini games. Your points are tallied at the end of the ride and compared ... , especially at amusement parks. But here, and now, at the age of 20 years old

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Wednesday, and Friday, I was invited to interview at one of my other top ... Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and ... I just returned from seeing an LSC free sneak preview of I Heart

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time ... , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , I'm really bad at guessing the ending of anything. Even mystery movies ... off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you ... that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007