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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or ... 1, even if it means making a deposit. If you are still interested in MIT, you should stay in contact with us. I'd recommend an email, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... , Dheera needed an innovative way to enter his own room without using a key ... explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 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.

  

  . 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 ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  psets around to pull out at any spare moments. All in all, I had a ... What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  ’t find the right words to describe a [annotation note="and nothing at all ... before [annotation note="with a minor detour, since i had to actually find ... lot of lying in bed, the first time I’d had a queen sized bed to myself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... school looks for. I want to become an engineer, so finding a good school ... . It was really different to be in a dorm full of people. East campus was

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  not go out until April. So, in a sense, I can understand the urge to not ... some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... sometime in the middle of March, probably a good two weeks before the Ivies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• 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…

  

  repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must

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

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  in the lounge, or working on a pset, or walking to Hayden to get ... : I went shopping, participated in a hall meeting, walked to Next House ... day in my room again. I don’t try to take a walk. I eat dinner. There

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously ... hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1 ... tried to put any of that in my mouth. The evening made up for a ... Pain, only to find out that they were out of chocolate chip cookies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  somewhere...on a drop form. And only because he used to be my academic advisor ... only a beer keg with one in which you are compelled to eat far too much ... official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  being in Boston or Cambridge. Sortof surreal to experience that in ... blogging more frequently in November. In the meantime, here are a couple of links to tide you over: First, The Human Factor is a video that MIT has

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  =_____=)) But anywhoo, back to the actual subject. In many ways, I still have a ... 'm starting to get a taste of it, as I spent over 30 hours in lab my very first ... come to iHouse, and these silly people are in love with a game called

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  ="as in, i drank a matcha this morning that i'm somehow reacting to right ... a major's coursework is supposed to be completable in 3 years with 3 ... genuine in a way that encourages you to be as excited about the literature

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian ... entire campus in a powdered-sugar cast.   It’s incredible how

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  [/annotation] and I'm just so happy to find genuinely such good guys." There's a ... believe them to be in my head and now I find it difficult to resolve the ... like in the future, if I were ever to have children. And then a horrible

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... graduate education in the case of a graduate student. The faculty member in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  Matt McGann. I was introduced to him in January 2005 by a mutual friend ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at ... picture in your banner? As the observant have no doubt noticed, it's a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  away from mit. i've been going to lincoln laboratory in lexington once or ... going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and ... writing a lot: about current debates in media, about wireless mesh networks

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017