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• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... various divisibility tests. I wasn't certain, though, until I got to a ... 'Reilly animals would make a great component to a Mystery Hunt puzzle. I brought

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  a bit of a different spin, bringing in guest speakers every class to ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... Center) to build an In-N-Out, which in my humble opinion is a VERY SAD ... ! Sadly, Ash and I were both in such a food coma that we were unable to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  back to my group in the Media Lab and joined another project as a UROP. I ... , immersed in classes, and taking a quick break on a beautiful sunny day to ... January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ?"   I'm glad you asked!  As a lifelong Californian before I went to ... 'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  , just like the class drop form, is due in a week. I keep forgetting to ... the summer, we'll get assigned to a faculty advisor in our major, and we ... else to the wayside. In the same way that a T-cell isn't going to be

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I ... we offer has grown over time as a result of advancements in science and ... the information age.) What will people be able to major in in 2105?

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and ... ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  large swathes of time to feel and think deeply at MIT. When you’re in a ... A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the ... Amtrak train, and more recently a day trip to Providence, RI also via

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... apply to graduate school. 2) is a class with my research advisor, and I ... -M (a communications intensive class for my major in major), and for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a ... breakfasts. I should note that in addition to the west coast and midwest, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  .  As a side note, in order to address my homework, I’ve developed ... require you to have a separate timer. You start a work session, you work ... realized that I really had to lock in for 8.01.  At the end of the class

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my ... normal again. I was lucky enough to get a housing exception from MIT which

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  'm very excited to get my own copy of this ring in April. It might just be a ... is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or ... tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  . We recommend you check now to make sure you can log in smoothly! If ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... you. In the meantime… well, that’s up to you! You could watch all the

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  can help you in making your big decision before May 1, feel free to reach me here, through email, or on FB! To be honest, I don't believe in ... 's somewhere else, then it's good as well. However, I do hope to do what I can in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... partner to design, build, and test a water rocket with an objective of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun ... to do with peanut butter. Thirty minutes later we were still arguing. A

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008