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  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  Hello, Class of 2012! There’s lots of fun stuff now on your MyMIT portal now, including: Campus Preview Weekend Registration: Please register for CPW on March 31 or when your…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you guys are amazing. I can’t wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren’t offered…

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very eventful day. It began with me in lab building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day). After…

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  [by Joan Horvath ’81] “What do you DO all day?” There’s a certain furtiveness when someone asks a scientist or engineer this question: perhaps it is nervousness about how thorough…

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  This video is very appropriate this morning. Since about five o’clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most of my time immersed in the…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  I have a way of always picking really time-consuming HASS classes. This semester, with two of them, Roman History (21H.302) and Reading/Writing Poetry (21W.756), I’m almost as stressed out about…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash ’11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a…

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I’m way excited to meet all of you, and also not because you make me feel old. But I’m mostly excited. Excited to get fitted for…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  Even though it’s been exactly a year since I found out I had been accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The morning of…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Tomorrow, I expect MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech, will publish our admissions statistics. But why wait until then? Here’s an overview of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This…

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

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  Well, March 15th was an experience, wasn’t it? I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking “You have no idea what I had to go through! I was sweating, feverish, started…

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There’s the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have to…

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about my classes, my…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2012! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates…

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we’ll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted A forum for students who were not admitted.

  

  With an 8% increase in applications, this year was again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 12% of applicants means that we had to turn away…

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It’s eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at the same time.…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  I’ve got about an hour before I’m forced off these blogs temporarily so I thought I’d squeeze in one last entry before decisions came out. When you get your decisions…

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  This past week has been a mixed bag on many levels. On the one hand, I’ve gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008