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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  year" between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just goofing off isn't worthwhile -- they say many students who take one return ... any reason as long as students don't apply elsewhere. "It's reached the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  seperate beds?" I can't speak for every dorm, but at East Campus, most rooms ... separate beds. I've seen bunk beds in Simmons but don't know if they ... two separate beds, but I don't know what the norm is, or if there is a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  an essay. But I have heard that MIT doesn't like to recieve extra ... (as told by my seniors) and doesn't really come in contact with the ... interviewing in India. I don't know what we will discover, but feel free to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  )" I don't know if any decisions hinge on this question, but I'll give it ... visited." As an international, I don't know how much you follow American ... looking at GPA right?" With two great choices like MIT and Yale, you can't

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  looks like it won't be interesting. Most of what I'll be writing about is ... are good introductions: Don't Let Me Down, the puzzle in this year ... course, puzzlehunts aren't just about the puzzles. In my previous post I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  building a career out of her true passions, even though the road hasn’t been ... for Social Media (CMS.613/21W.751) is—I don’t know where else you could ... sixties, and in the sixties you don’t have Twitter. That doesn’t really

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  since it won’t be sent with the admissions application packet?" That won't be a problem, no worries. We, of course, have a procedure for that ... . How do I change my address? Thanks!" Don't worry! You can either email

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

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  , so I don't know just how universal everything in this blogpost would be ... use as a good template for your schedule. If you don't know what to ... Fall 2022), but anything less won't be quite representative of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  online (Part 2), my name doesn't appear on the two signature lines which ... in?" This is a bug in our online application, all is good, don't worry ... score report on december 19th. I see no reason why it wouldn't have

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

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  late? She can't mail it out because of Wilma. Also, if I used paper ... wrote, "Hi Matt, I am a permanent resident but my parents don't live or ... essays... but other than the first 500 word essay, you can't upload a file

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  I. Lift - Radiohead I didn’t really have a good senior year. My ... place It won't hurt ever again --and two main things on my mind: MIT ... at MIT. As you’ll discover in this post, I can’t recommend it enough

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  of a more comprehensive post that i wrote for myself but didn’t think ... ) position, which i wasn’t super excited about because i don’t think working in finance is particularly good for the world (i don’t think it’s bad either; i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  you haven’t checked it out yet, lookie here. To achieve this, we ate ... Toonz 🤮, the  t h i r d  dimension, and lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  numbers, I took CJ's Sporcle quiz! And I...didn't do too hot. I totally ... limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at ... archery in Q2. I wasn't very good at it, and I miss [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  clubs or doing extracurriculars. It wouldn’t be the same as on campus, so I didn’t want to join just to have an experience that would feel like ... expected and I cannot do math, so rip. Fairly certain this isn’t advisable

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  , that banned every electronic device which wasn’t a watch or an iron). We ... dining hall food if we didn’t like it. Now, recall that we lived in a ... she hadn’t had until a minute ago. We would slurp the ramen down our

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  climb Mt. Fuji for the past few months, maybe because I don't know when I ... wearing around my head. Here are some other facts that I didn't know ... near our work for $20. (FORESHADOWING!) It wasn't too bad at first. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  summary with a few screen shots instead. I don't want the admissions officer ... new information will be smothered. I know I can't actually remove the ... supplementary recommendation, but I don't think it will be ready by January 1st

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  defend. 1. Proofs are boring Don't you dare show me a mathematical proof ... saying we shouldn't have mathematical proofs, I'm just saying that these ... ] This is mostly just out of ignorance, but isn't 16 just specialized 2

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  course, I can't slander the good name of Janet without giving her a chance ... this as the reason for why i haven’t written anything in the past 3 months ! i swear i’m cooking. my next blog is gonna be about t" Ok, here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025