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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. Here are some of yesterday ... busy though? I mean...I know I got my CSS done a little late but it ... some of us not recieved our financial aid packages yet? I know I got all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  business of making "women in engineering" into a big issue just makes a huge ... really out of hand. So, here's what happened: some anonymous person made ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  didn't even have eight hours of class in one day during high school, lol ... Environmental Science in 60 hours during my senior year of high school ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  faculty, staff and alumni in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  .02 and 18.02 with the rest of us -- no "Rocks for Jocks" at this school ... I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are ... there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind ... constraints of school and homework. Most summers of high school, I worked to ... 've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  of me], and not taking full advantage of the birthright being offered ... 's account where they upload covers of songs that they like. It feels so real ... of a saying but I couldn't quite remember. I thought it went "If you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  --Steam Cafe offers two of each per day, one vegetarian and one meat. They change ... chocolate cake, a French pasta salad (huh?) and a metric ton of scallion pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  , where every school in the entire county has been closed. San Diego County has 646 public schools, with nearly 500,000 students. A thousand homes have been destroyed. From myself and all of my colleagues in Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  concentration of excellence at schools like MIT is really unmatched in the large state school environment. Sure, you can find a group of equally smart ... recommendations is one of the biggest factors for getting into graduate school, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  lots of board games with all of my friends— I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to call businesses to ask to make sure the food ... from all my overcommitment. I want to shill during midway to the point of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... version of Lifeguarding in my high school, and truth be told, the Taiwanese ... myself outside of the classroom. In high school, I was pretty limited in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of ... school cycle of late nights and naps. It was also because it's a lot easier ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  year, she gave a series of half-hour performances for children at schools ... Schwartz / The Weekly Beat Sulinya Ramanan has not yet completed high school ... lifetime. On May 18, the Spackenkill High School senior will be honored as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  ’m not proud of. To be honest, my solution in high school was just… not to ... lost many of those hobbies when I started middle school. In theory I ... about culture, comparing our customs of respect, discussing middle school

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  some of the nation's most successful magnet schools -- but I am glad that ... of Iowa charges American schools with impeding the development of the ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I ... extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a ... awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... take while I could; I could always go to art school later, right ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  though, because of how fast paced things go and how busy everyone is. Once ... common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024