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• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so ... applications from the office; my stack is fairly random, including applicants ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... Thanksgiving morning in the ER with my 6-month old son, after staying up all

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of sun and fun. The class of 2005 graduated, and it was really awesome to see some of my friends celebrate the completion of four successful years

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  "likely admit" letters for RD applicants before the actual deadline? I know ... scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them some good news before the competition does. This courtship, which can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... Market). Then we walked through Boston Common, up Beacon Hill, across the Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed the storyline, the adventures we had, our victories and defeats, and ... little glimpse into the average Mystery Hunt puzzle solving session and a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  't seem to make sense Everything was going well Guess that was just the ... the cool things about helping run HMMT is the staff exchanges. My first ... the pandemic happened, and I didn't go to any. But last weekend I got to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  This [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month ... finished, so I decided with the extra time that I would go visit my ... ="because apparently y'all care about TikTok THAT much"]the second most important event

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 ... will be my general thoughts about being in MITWE. Day 7 It was the day before the big concert; naturally, the entire afternoon was blocked out for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  burgers for the entire weekend, so i did not feel great when i got home ... wonderful—we hiked, walked around the town, and hung out in our super nice ... days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  “It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... Pluto, much crisper than the 1996 Hubble photo. Right now the probe is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  life. In other words, the more catered Chipotle, rush burgers, or local pizza consumed, the higher one’s overall satisfaction with life in general ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  to our suitcases. I probably should’ve put my suitcase on the luggage ... elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a beautiful monument. I don’t know how I convinced Linh to brave hours under the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... across STARKILLER: The Jedi Bendu Script site, which purports to. Now ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn't frozen solid. My roommate and I gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water flowed beneath the sparkling ice. It does, but I didn't find that out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, that said "YOU GOT THE GIG!" I simply did not believe it.  I was sitting ... .  I looked at my computer and I saw the e-mail, and it was just

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise ... even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious ... , though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the 2.009 Prototype Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025