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• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  that! Also, earlier today, another admissions officer left a nice comment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Olympics. We were testing rowers, archers--USA Today, CBS, newspaper people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  early an age as possible. But today she expanded on that mission and

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just tackle those extremely time-sensitive questions from students still deciding... "Anonymous" wrote, "I have a Q: is MIT gay-friendly? (intl here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  today. My friend Satwik gave me the sad news this week that Howard Brown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  honestly hope that some of you went into school today and, playing the role

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida... but it's snowing here, and it is beautiful. I'm overlooking this winter wonderland as I'm reading applications today, and it makes me feel calm, very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here is MIT by…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  After three and a half years of being at this school, I’ve taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I’m bad at remembering numbers (sometimes…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  disclaimer in case the title doesn’t show this, I am writing this blog to show that there *isn’t* a ‘best way’ to choose where to apply, and that even after…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  A few months ago, May.  When I’m away from you, I’m happier than ever Wish I could explain it better — Happier than Ever by Billie Eilish It’s final projects…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• 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-unit, half-semester class under IDM⁠16 Integrated Design and Management and the Infinite, as in, it’s in the…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  (taps mic) is this thing working? hello? okay, great. that’s cool. it’s been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly, but like, a deep…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  This summer, I’m doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I’ve been enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe, everything is close, which allows…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip to the next pictures from there if needed!) “What’s your favorite type of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  team, so i love this class too. 24.917: ConLangs: Construct a Language

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  It’s September, school has started, and I know that before long I’ll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I’ll get busy with classes, and clubs, and…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  is 24 inches. I saw some videos of people tying two 14 or 18 inch locs

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and…it sure has been A Week™. Freshmen aren’t invited back to campus this semester, but I’m renting an…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  24 We roll into Chicago nearly two hours late, so my time in the Windy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019