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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  (WBCN) and national brands like Gatorade. The runners (including the MIT ... Asian Culture Show, always a great and huge event, a great place to check out traditional Indian dance like Kathak, Kuchipudi, and Bharatanatyam

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  the middle of May, after we've received and processed the responses from ... overenrollment of previous years) and thus it is more likely that this year will ... ethical? You do need to let other colleges know by May 1, and you should

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  suggest that they, um, need lessons on how to dress and flirt. Matt not only ... great and the sets funky, the little kids who played younger Tommies ... though, since 1) I had a backrest and 2) 10-250 ended up getting so full

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand ... front row ("splash") seats, so I left the theater a little bit wet and ... , clubbing at some of Vegas' most fashionable nightspots, and just hanging out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as ... science and technology. One of the biggest reasons I turned down a job on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  are), but rather I'll base everything on my own personal opinions and ... bell curve), and 3.091 got the lectures recorded on video (for the ... are better if you do them with the big crowd, and for me, given a chance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far ... ’s often brutal and unforgiving academic gauntlet, yet also sad that I was ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one ... and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes ... waitlist and did not make it beyond the first class, so I do not remember his

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... and fell 100 albums behind by June? would I really be able to devote ... school, I devoured Ready Player One a few days into the new year and had an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally ... Ring Comm Study Break to help plan, and we were assigned 8 – we repeat E ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I ... Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to be ... your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other updates ... , RA applicants -- including international students -- and EA deferreds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe, the bay area, wine country, and Monterey, you tend to be a daycationer ... June… was followed by a walk around Sonoma, and through an amusing

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... feature X-Treme Web Browsing among shots of sweat-spurting sprinters and ... daily existence, turns to Google and utters through his eternally

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  key to the rest of the site. Each page of the site contains, first and ... world, and so on. Pretty much all admissions sites I've seen have this ... student life and culture, for example, you have almost instant access to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  , I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore ... , but without the FPOPs and orientation. I felt angsty because I felt like ... supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

    One warm night last summer, my roommate Penny ‘24 and I were ... and have fun!  The Infinite Infinite The first major letdown that one ... Infinite and out lobby 7 to grab a bite to eat from the [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... trying again and again to write my [annotation note="although i am very, very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of ... appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people ... shaped your dreams and aspirations? (200-250 words) Tell us about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019