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• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  deferred and get in later, MIT can't afford to accept everybody EA so they ... , sorry RA, more incentive to apply early) get a tube in the mail that ... application, get it sent in, and find out if they made it in. Others feel that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  'm going to stop yelling. My voice is getting hoarse, and everyone in the ... Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  admissions web site. I hope you like it! In October (when I get back from fall recruitment travel) we'll be launching a centralized Q&A blog, in an attempt to keep the other blog threads on topic (how often have you been in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  (!). He plans to play in Europe next year (maybe with Kobe Bryant?).   ... . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... .0. He would be a sure thing to land a lucrative job in business or science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... how to keep students from cheating on them. Yesterday in 11.125, we ... does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  get in— I completely understand the fear and anxiety that comes with possibly getting into not only MIT, but to any rigorous, awesome school ... MIT in your sights shows that you must believe in yourself to some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... . Or in laymen's terms, I get to break stuff in lab =). It's fascinating ... schedule this term so lets get to it. (classes are arranged chronologically

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... take care of yourself in a new environment without Mom and Dad around to ... long as you get a chance to begin learning what it means to have the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in ... famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to ... The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with 40+ McGanns in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision ... -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get ... being put together in parallel with everything else going on. If the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... getting really bored. Besides, I wanted a faster way to get around campus ... skateboard. Getting the board After asking some friends in the Class of ‘25

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  's remote, though" which, yes, true. But I was just happy to get one in the ... it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  than to maybe add in links or pictures, i’m going to try and preserve the ... words to say something that could have probably been conveyed in just a few, but overall the issue lies in getting started in the first place

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  experience in class with people you’d never otherwise meet. Getting to see the ... stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to ... feel so tense. It was about as close to an epiphany as I’ll ever get, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... 3 webcams in the lab. Feel free to tune in. Live, from the Lino ... in the MIT Glass Lab this week. Since space is so tight and so tightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  -togethers in their hometowns for students admitted to the class of 2020. These ... celebrate your acceptance after meeting alums in Orlando Be sure to check ... acceptance letters, current students are getting ready for spring break, and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... freshman year. that person can only staple in groups of up to four people

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021