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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  selective universities, for the most part, hasn't changed. And with new ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  & Yale Universities for meetings in Northern California/Nevada and the ... a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  the department and the Institute. You must be available from 12-1:00 pm ... 's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  -fall and both universities are trying to learn each other's secrets to ... 's best universities better. In 1970, Dean of Institute Relations at MIT ... kind of Wizard's Institute of Technology could engender such devotion

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... classmates are, and thought I might share some of it with you. This month, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences"]SHASS[/annotation], [annotation note="MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning"]DUSP[/annotation], and the ... Wiesner student gallery, and the MIT Museum. While MIT is known primarily

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  in his analysis of state power (1980): [The state] stores and can ... us” and “penetrates everyday life more than did any historical state ... power” and “despotic power”; the two are related but separable, so a state

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  university campuses, female scientists are asking why, and wondering what they ... held at Columbia University and the City University of New York graduate ... Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of

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

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  : Lubbock, TX High school: Lubbock High School College: Tulane University, Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  , and tilt your head 90 degrees or until sufficiently uncomfortable. See ... -stripped evidence of my baryonic selfhood in three suitcases, two boxes, and a broken ... ankles in urban New England. Slush is a test of courage and moral fiber

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  . Friday • Head up near Iowa State University in Ames and hear about life in ... , and now that I have emerged from my first season of reading MIT ... potential future classmates, as well as MIT students and alumni. Here are a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... Maine for about 20 minutes, but I still think it counts."]three states[/annotation] and stopping at least five McDonald's; a tragedy that would cost us 125

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  about the MIT fencing team, and I think that I'm in a better state to try ... 'd share the two that I have and do some reflecting on who I used to be ... ="missa was the nickname i went by in middle and high school

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... , college kiddos, and old folks who really like our retirement communities

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  , and that even after going through the undergrad application cycle, applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  university has its own institutional priorities, its own culture, and its own ... Bachelors degree from your university, we will not be able to consider you (we ... process and selectivity of MIT with University of Cambridge. Is it possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology -- held its 2006 Forum last Thursday, and my friend Veena '06 invited me to ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  universities, the degree to which labs here are open to discussion and the ... processor. Let's call it a "Time Experiment" and pretend we know what we ... awesome. Ten out of ten would sit in it again. And since Hayden is so, Empty

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  universes and there's a final search to find the coin. Things would be ... that a team would call HQ, state their team name, the puzzle, and the ... This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program ... at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... them and befriend people who express intellectual curiosity and genuine

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023