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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... . But you won't be at any disadvantage if you can't come. For those of ... in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days ... ’ve worked so hard to get to. In an audiobook? None of that is up to you. I ... MIT. Why do I listen to so many audiobooks? I think part of the reason

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... get an email, and I'll post another entry so you can have any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  interviewer can move past this prejudice in the course of the interview, but if ... parts of the country. Despite the diversity of the group, I was interested to see the similarity of answers across the group. Below, I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... be involved." I emailed the students in charge of the DEAL program ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to ... . Panic. Panic. But I remembered a general lesson I learned in the past

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... , which just about covered an entire 24x36in cardboard sheet. I filled the ... layer of the cardboard at all - I ended up with just enough pieces without

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  are not offering admission, then all I can remind you is that success is ... students can be found here, with more information about next steps to come in ... a better place. I know you can. I hope you will.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  the ten hundred most used words. I told them they can write about ... It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago ... students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  immersed in arts courses or the creative community. Students of any major can ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of ... a metal pipe hitting the ground? Rockin’ in the Wind is a set of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... ). I also wanted to say a huge a welcome to the Class of 2024! This

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I ... shape the perception of fantasy and science fiction in popular culture ... one of us was still sitting in his hotel room at 4:45, still scribbling

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  , but in a few minutes I will watch the Germany vs. Italy semifinal match ... Dortmund. And, speaking of pasta, I was memorizing information about bacteria this morning (for the MCATs, of course), and I noticed that the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  conference at Princeton, I read two articles in today's New York Times which ... professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick Patterson (the first author) was published in this week's issue of the journal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  was on a huge social high. I was let loose in a candy shop of ... again. Over winter break I lost two of my good friendships in pretty quick ... up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice-covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of 2006 Brass Rat: Another view of the Brass Rat: I heard someone ask ... Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been ... . When most people think of Shakespeare they imagine old English men in ... —written about a fifteenth-century civil war—in an alternate version of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025