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  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  decision. Out of the 437 students on our wait list, 26 were offered admission ... many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. During this time ... from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my ... of Biomolecular Systems is listed as both a Biological Engineering (BE

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math ... -come, first-served basis. An article in the New York Times last year summed this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Happy Organic Chemistry II Day! I ... of the year and then miss it? So, Mollie did that entry about life in ... Random Hall. One thing she doesn't mention is that one of the floors in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a ... awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  of New York, credit to Yuliya for the idea and inspiration) “Door ... This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... . All three of these dorms have spectacular murals, but I wanted to talk

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has ... long after writing that blog, though, I had a bit of a breakthrough in ... general relativity, and all of a sudden I was reminded of just how

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  " instead of tackling hard technology problems that have more world ... Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion worth of startups, including Dropbox and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down.  A common criticism of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  final week of excitement at MIT. Events include "Breakfast with the ... today on this blog, I also begin a weeklong celebration of our seniors. I ... representative of the class as a whole. They are not random, but rather students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  Professor Virk teaches 10.301 and I hear he's a fan of Nelly. ------------------------------------------------------- Since you are a member of the MIT Class of 2007, You get to ask a ... much...FREE FOOD. ALL THROUGH THE MONTH OF MARCH How about this: Get a

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... ride through 33-degree sleet and rain en route to Colorado Springs for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the making of MIT Imagination, along with some b-roll and a montage of mascot ... of love by many people at MIT. CREDITS: Written and directed by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if ... Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... complaints, they are still present. -Watching Dramashop's performance of Suzan

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007