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  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  With Campus Preview Weekend just a few weeks away (sign up here if you haven’t done so already), early spring is an exciting time for the MIT community. Newly admitted…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  This is a guest post by someone–Michael T. (UMD ’19)–whose college essays I helped edit last year. He’s a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering.…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now available at   > > > decisions.mit.edu < < <    You can log in using the same…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! CELEBRATE! BE HAPPY!  

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It’s Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it’s a big day, and…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  “The Social Enterprise Conference brings together top leaders, practitioners, and students passionate about social enterprise. In our 17th year, the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social Enterprise…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students – a break between the semesters to relax, recharge, recoup, and reflect*. But somehow I managed to be at least…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  Less than two weeks ago, Caroline Chin and Kamilla Tekiela (both class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at MIT, sharing and analyzing the findings from…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it’s 52 degrees and sunny and there’s a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven’t shared pictures of my new room…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project-based classes (among others), whose projects span…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP

  

        MIT Regular Action admissions decisions will be available online on Monday, March 14, 2016, beginning at 6:28 PM ET. When decisions are released, access decisions.mit.edu and login…

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the Ethiopian…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a direct transcript for your reading pleasure: Me: Tell me about your day. Dora: So I went…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend and ate…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  The following is a guest entry by Patrick L. ’17 Just before 9 pm on February 28th, the 18,239th and final piece was placed into the puzzle in private dining.…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  Last Friday night I came home from lab, took off my jewelry, wondered what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  2/19/2016 It’s been 2.5 weeks since classes started, and I’m already hosed*. I’ve been counting down the days until Spring Break. 29 days to be exact. It’s also the first…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  Aaand… Semester #3 is done! I’m on the plane back home, music conjuring fantastic worlds, clouds dispersing around the flying machine. Like in the winter of my freshman year. But…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016