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• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... things happen, like when your school is shut down by a hurricane, your home ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  ![/caption]     An Evening with Champions The second week of school, I ... " align="alignnone" width="1000"] A most stunning sunset of Dorm Row my ... you may undergo a process of re-adjustment in your place of origin

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  ; seal of approval from an Actual High School Senior ™   4. Shirley ... year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of ... mom has introduced to the household.   why   To those of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  --i'll fix it) done the whole esplanade - fourth of july - fireworks - picnic ... river played guess-the-summer-camp with all the high school students on ... , i see you MOSTEC...) driven a zipcar full of friends out to westford

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  As you may have read on the front page of mitadmissions.org, our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we have received ... the following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  inducted or inaugurated or initiated or something into the MIT chapter of Tau ... make me a little bit uncomfortable. Now, TBP isn't anything like one of ... reactor. Of course, I'm totally forbidden to tell you anything about what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  of homework, with a fourth packet due this coming Monday. I've done ... Latin (an area high school) the other night to see the Boston-area early action admits -- they had a meet&greet sort of event for students

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... Doctor (resident), engineer for Sony Consumer Electronics, medical school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  to win some. When I was in my last year of high school, I was pretty ... applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to ... -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be ... : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  18th. Of course being that it was a long plane ride, I wrote some entries, read some books, watched some episodes of How I Met Your Mother (I ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are ... most of the remaining time I have with these people, because they're so ... I am today. . . . while cultivating new friendships! Many of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  being at the top of your class, or your school, or your country, it’s easy ... blinked, and suddenly the trees have shed their leaves, flecks of snow have ... and sororities. famlines are generally small groups of mentorship

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  point! i had been scared at the thought of graduate school and doing ... examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  a week of high school, I felt strange pangs of loneliness more often than ever. I wrestled with this sense of isolation and alienation a lot ... , something I had more of in high school. To me, this idea of focus also comes

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... winter, rapidly decaying window of daylight, and my delayed sleep schedule

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  swarm of army ants. Panic - when you have set up camp outside a school in ... flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... . Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... B+, you might feel robbed. But enough of the preemptive

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at ... lunchtime to look for my friends. Most of the high school friends I knew who ... , none of the friends I had who were in high school. And then I hung out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019