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• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  get very busy this time of year, respect their time! Try to get your ... falls before most schools notify. Having an interview with MIT does not ... community, consider sending in some of your work. If you are interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  I like? Can the size of the smaller school offer a more supportive ... of APs you should take. If your school offers AP calculus, we hope you ... not accelerated in any way (fault of the high school). In addition, i

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  that wasn't surprising to hear). No matter which school you attend, most likely you'll be at the mercy of whatever treats the school gives you ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... experimental design, testing, business models, patent issues, cost analysis, and all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  This year the city of Boston turns 375 years old (that makes Boston how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th ... when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in August 2018 when she strung together some scraps of potential posts that ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  weeks at the end of the school year to see my family, and then I went down ... offer with a pretty number. Of who I would become if I accepted. People ... I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  tired because fall of senior year."]school.[/annotation] And then I didn ... motivation for it. Part of it was that I was just so busy, but part of it was ... It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  Bookstore. It turns out that the Harvard Business School throws an amazing ... , I biked back from the business school very carefully and safely in the ... commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , or business, or life. Nobody's successful all of the time. So what you ... without a car. Isn't there a delivery-to-door option offered by some of the ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets, tests, med school interviews, extracurriculars, and more. By the time ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying ... for serious business and once to meet with my high school classmates in ... hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  . Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of ... Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel like writing about them. I'll be back at school soon, where I'll actually

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  and the current is flowing west and a school of goldfish is exerting a ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... ’s just so freaking cute! Of course, he’s totally in love with Veronica and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  believes will negatively affect his chances of getting into a "good school ... comments of his high school classmates who intimated that he was only ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  scenes all of the time. A typical 2 hour class starts with a warmup, some ... drive is littered with scraps of nonsense that will probably never blossom ... have a few one act plays to my name by the end of the semester. Also, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The Globe's business section today had a nice column by Scott Kirsner on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005