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• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... offer you my congratulations. Welcome to the most stressful four years of ... of your comfort zone, whether it is trying a new activity, or

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, at the University of ... There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic ... International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Barclays Global Investors completed PhD at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ... program, beginning postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh ... State Department of Health urban planner at Dyatt & Bhatia student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  all sound Jewish." Jim Conroy, chairman of college counseling at New ... admissions staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was ... applying to college. Willard M. Dix, college counselor at the University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  will also attend college fairs this month in New York City and New ... & Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the ... from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  , I ate at the brand new Steam Cafe, a very yummy new dining option! I ... Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates ... established at the Institute in 29 years. MIT is the first university in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women who rock science!) 2 of the 8 New York Times Scholars A student who ... Citizens Number of countries represented: 59 10% Geography New England

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  'll both be in Pasadena post-grad (he'll be at NASA JPL). Hooray! A new ... alumni wear it so that they're looking back at the MIT skyline. As of that ... in elaborate robes, waved at Prof. Bertschinger, accepted my diploma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  held at Columbia University and the City University of New York graduate ... Madeline Heilman, a psychologist at New York University): “The importance of ... engineering at the University of California at Davis, mentioned several

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  surprised - and interested - at some of the comments (each of the paragraphs ... computer science, and a grad-level class in medieval French lit at U of L ... good teachers, and my school offered a lot of them, so I took them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  -expenses paid day trip to New York every February! Each year, the events of the ... events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of ... Mexicano. We joined the Arts Scholars at the end of our freshman year so we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. John Hopkins University Press, 1995. A 1907 ... History of New York City (21H.235). That's where all the things are coming

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a ... and I had in New York last weekend, but I'm not going to write it until ... today, I'm not going to post anything about New York. So don't ruin it for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  really answer it. At the end of the day, you really just need to trust your ... 10 day prep and these tests are totally of new shape of what I had been ... enroll at MIT, just appropriate evidence of academic preparation. Sounds

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted ... colleges. After about 5 picoseconds of staring at my acceptance letter from ... means of the Internet), I accepted my offer of admission. You already know

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... University, who nevertheless said he had yet to read a profile of a young

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  up in applications that I didn't read Sunday's New York Times, usually ... flow of cultural goods around the world," there is a "new pop ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In an essay in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at ... provided above.  Online Education at the University of Edinburgh ... (Massive Online Open Courses). At the University of Edinburgh, the MOOC with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Dorothy Hernandez, 20, a native of New Orleans who studied architecture at ... : Number of hurricanes dodged: 1 Meals eaten at Columbia restaurant: 1 Number of intriguing yet controversial New Urbanist communities visited: 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005