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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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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.… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Blog / Academics & Research
New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule
This past Saturday was CSC’s (Chinese Students Club) Lunar New Year banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat exorbitant amounts of Chinese food,… -
Blog / Academics & Research
scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand
Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take classes you enjoy? My schedule this semester is half Aero/Astro and half Comparative Media Studies (CMS): 16.35 is… -
Blog / Academics & Research
PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks
A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and…