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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of ... the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below.   ... ; by Ryan P. '20  Over here in admissions, we are still finalizing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret ... anywhoo, in Taiwan there's this moderately popular TV show called Da Xue

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  in common - the Groundhog Day [annotation note="and maybe a painfully ... reliving the same day over and over again, trapped in a time loop with no ... everything in sight, speed through red lights, and even rob banks just because

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  we had learned in that unit. Kanji characters and hiragana were still swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 into several boxes. I left it all behind in Boston as I embarked on ... . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for lunch. Still a work in progress -- I'll keep you guys updated.  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  So here we are. I'm sitting in the AeroAstro Gelb Lab ... . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be working an internship in Seattle. It hasn't exactly settled in yet that I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case ... ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  sciences department in between. But course 17 (Political Science), though seemingly only a science in a purely semantical sense, is a hidden gem here at the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Universal Championship Wrestling in Kentucky. Courses in CMS frequently take ... wrestling. Later, we both did varsity wrestling in high school, which is a ... class in the CMS department this term devoted to pro wrestling: CMS.602

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Princeton. Ironically, every girl that ... mediocrity in both. In fact, 60% of interviewed students said that they planned ... well-rounded by participating in a variety of activities, from sport

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  are in college time seems to slip away. It’s been weeks since we’ve had ... to study in the coffee shop. Because I’m walking again I decide to take ... in shambles. Gaping sections are missing, and it’s due tomorrow. Time

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  discussion covering life in residences, residential support offerings ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  the one purchased. Or they could. To paraphrase: "We'll arrive in time ... ALWAYS happens? At least seen it in the movies? Random guess: This will ... contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  last year of Mathcamp. In hindsight, it’s no surprise that I applied to return as a JC a few months later. And when my offer popped up in my inbox ... set the campers semi-loose in the city. We also offered some subtrips

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in ... -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high school, because our mom kept us in check organiztion wise (read: she threw

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017