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• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... scores? If you are taking additional tests in December or January, you can include MIT as a score recipient and we will consider any new scores. Can I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  than "as soon as you can." The bottom line is: Please send in ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... I got this question over email, which echoes questions I've been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  ? Can I see myself learning from them? Do I want to learn from them? Will I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don't forget the money factor! Will I / Can I make a difference? If you visited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  date that you can take is in January. Just because I care, here is the ... applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade ... yourself rolling your eyes every once in awhile (I know I did), but even ... in, just because I wish people in this country would actually vote! I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last ... they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in ... 's Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) in April (or vice versa). I'm pretty sure they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  briquettes (a dense fuel dominant in developing countries). They can be used instead of modern fuel sources in electricity-scarce regions. I’ll spend ... often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning was foreign to me, and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me ... in words i’d say my biggest takeaway was a sense of freedom, a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was ... Battlebots early to help with another event, I’d led the event in full for ... subteam this coming fall :) I’d encourage any prefrosh interested in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the ... alleviate the dissonance in my mind every time I accidentally referred to MIT ... no home and no place and no thing that is perfect. I love MIT in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  can provide lots of great ideas. I hope that if you're interested in ... "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  in middle school. Manray was the first place I ever really danced (and ... ). Though I can't see myself, I'm sure I'm not very good, but I don't care ... . Sadly, you're not supposed to bring cameras in, so I couldn't take

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me ... their food that it’s become deeply engrained in who I am. The other side ... -flopper. No opinion I held was ever set in stone. All it took was a conflicting

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I've already heard" in my mind. But it wasn't until this semester that I realized ... senior in high school, I used to be the kid who pulled all-nighters, just

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... very little time in big cities like Baltimore. So I begged local ... students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... leaves…and pork belly, in massive quantities. I ask the nice man at the ... 't been back in almost two years, and most days I like it that way. Still

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i ... Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all ... very video unfriendly shirt in this vodcast! (you've been warned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  itself clocking in at  3-4 Zelda OST, 2-3 Queen Songs The more I thought ... references and important concepts in my life, I found the units that defined my ...         I was making the trek from East

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022