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  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  admitted students are in the top 5% of their class, the highest percentage in at least 5 years. The median SAT scores were 780 math (up 10 points ... rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  : Thursday, 8am-4pm.MIT Abroad Panel: Thursday, 5:15pm.CPW Welcome for Students: Thursday, 8:30pm.CPW Festival: Thursday, 9:30pm.UROP Panel: Friday, 10am ... , 5pm.Bloggers Party: Friday, 8:30pm.Activities Fair: Saturday, 1-3pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of ... 've overcome" essay 10:17 Just breeeeeathe Some of my favorite blog posts about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, rather than the 10s of years in ... from the industry, which currently accounts for estimated 5 to 8 percent

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  test. With ourselves often playing the test subjects. 5. We don't post

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  real time, using your cell phone. If just 10% of the prefrosh currently registered for CPW each upload 5 texts and/or photos over the course of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  When I got out of my 5.13 lecture at 12:55, I walked from the Green Building to my UROP in building 18 (oh look, it's that map again- the Green Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  Pepper Sky to commemorate our last 5.12 exam. (It's tradition.) And if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Tyra Banks is 5'10" tall and weighs 161 lbs. I am 5'9 3 ... combination. This person is MIT '10 and he came down from Hazleton, PA to ... hole. He must be a Course 10 major using Aspen to finish his problem set

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation Monday Series guided by Amy McCreath of LEM (Lutheran Episcopal Ministry) and hosted by LBGT@MIT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender at MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  Recruitment 5) Elizabeth Brinkerhoff, Project Manager 6) Tim Blackburn, Designer ... picture) Objects: 9) Coffee 10) Laptop 11) A book on maps 12) Notes (some

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  : Friday, June 5, 2009 MIT Class of 2010: Friday, June 4, 2010 Things ... don't begin until 10am. In the meantime, there's a "pre-game show." This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  Salvador and Amy each read 922 applications, and we received 10 ... February 28.) Salvador takes 5 days of vacation in December and 2 days in

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

    January 18, 10pm MIT Intramural C League Hockey   MIT Canadian Club 5 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 0   (hey, they're Canadian, what could we do?) Today, the MyMIT Portal team had our weekly meeting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  % 31-33 2,347 178 8% 28-30 1,037 47 5% 25-27 456 2 0% < 25 305 0 ... -30 989 57 6% 25-27 571 26 5% < 25 177 1 0% Distribution of ACT Scores (Writing) Applicants Admits Admit rate 10-12 1,690 199 12% 8

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  ) pset, due Wednesday at 5pm (took 4-5 hours). This wasn't too bad. It was ... Computational Neuroscience) pset, due Thursday at 10:30am (took about 9 hours ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  recuperation from, my oral presentation on GFP for 10.28: Saturday: Scored free ... more. After a review session for the dreaded 10.302, I came back and got ... all our slides for our 10.28 oral presentation "by this evening." So, to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  12.5% "blogger admit rate," it was almost as hard to be selected as a ... ; Busta Chi Here It Goes Again - OK Go The 5th Avocado Gnarls Barkley - "Who ... are the new student bloggers: Kim D. '09 Cristen C. '10 Ahmed H. '12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  I'm taking 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) this semester, which is ... . (I will say that I like the subject matter more than that of 5 ... in 10-250 are, indeed, purple). "I'm a HORRIBLE singer!" she protested

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  . '10, and I am indeed an MIT student. (Eight months after receiving the ... ", which would be nice if it were true, as I'm only 5'4"), a human rights ... this blog until the new site launches September 5th, which means you guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006