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• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  MIT Media Lab. You can read more in thousands of articles across the web ... a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I'm really enjoying this year's applications; I know that we have a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  . Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice ... accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  scientific ingenuity or whatever; you can't pulverize a chunk of snow in your ... solve Shor cells in the C shell.” Long story shor(t), I moved out of ... of Random Hall, I can list everything I own that interacts with photons

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

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  , and I feel like some of my overthinking actually paid off. Thus, in ... ! In what should have been a predictable chain of events, however, I am ... : Bedside Storage Caddy The beds in BC can be raised pretty high, but I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  or recitation This is one of the few I can use as a general note of ... on the world out of everything I’ve done so far in my whole life. This ... be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  many hard facts or types of evidence as I can--what’s the real reason ... cool) In the end, I’m reminded of one of my father’s favorite speeches ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  ' topics. Can anyone guess mine? November 29: Education in Kerala, India ... growth Demand for Coke vs. Pepsi Determinants of house prices in Newton ... 13: MCAS scores and housing prices in Newton The closing minutes of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  I can't believe I've been blogging as an admissions officer at MIT for 9 years.  Over that time, I've periodically opened ... ." As for your questions, ask them below in the comments.  I'll

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but ... in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities ... , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  neither performing. In how many ways can the trio be chosen? I know, I ... In numerical order, this term, I am taking: 4.614; 7.012; 14.02; 14.30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  December 3, 2007. France. I'm in France. But I just got done with Italy. And ... the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L ... of their sandwiches is called a Croque McDo, which I guess must be some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  do most of the sharing. (I don't know much about how it works after ... get crowded first.) In terms of gender mixing, there is a very large ... one guy can share a double. Certain floors in Random Hall are designated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... ! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... fire alarm in the middle of a deep sleep. Right. Back to what I was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  attending one of the most advanced universities in the world. I can’t tell you ... admissions in general. I had actually committed to Cornell, I had done all of ... ’s always in the back of my mind what people think about me. But I’ve never

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  . Trust me. 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms I -- Write the first 8 bars of ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... you know what happens when you assume, don't you? Well, I guess some of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  a point of basic connection outside what classes I’m in or ... say I think the only aspect of me in high school was my academics ... sincerest form of optimism. In being tested in my ability to extract what I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  for two weeks I fed myself in a couple of different ways this IAP. For ... lack of a proper kitchen space breaks my heart. But I moved in knowingly ... two tins of sardines as well as a can of green beans that I bought on a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people ... cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was ... experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... meet every one of you who couldn't be admitted in person and tell you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  culture really small pieces of liver tissue in a scaffold that can be ... in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006