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• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  partnered to give a joint information session on both of our institutions. I ... students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  research has to offer. By the April of my freshman year, I declared 6-9 as my ... mechanical engineering degree programs, 2A in particular has a set of ... of the physics general institute requirements"]8.022.[/annotation] A

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  students have until May 1 to decide whether or not to accept our offer of ... ’s mission to use science, technology, and other areas of scholarship to work ... fellow mountaineers, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  Just this morning I was reading the New York Times on line and ... . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... MIT, and we have offered early admission to 687. These students hail ... woodturners — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now ... offered early admission to 707. These students hail from more than 486 high ... chess — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now ... admission to MIT, and we have offered early admission to 664. These students ... by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  course 20 degree, so I am technically a 19 but kind of a 20…….” Seems like ... , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... senior events that are planned for the class of 2019. My main concerns

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  can send a letter outlining your plans to our office: Office of Admissions Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room ... details). If you are a member of the Class of 2011 and would like to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  me.” Biopharmaceutical Trip One of the perks of the Institute is the ... Period) at MIT, which offers a plethora of random activities, ranging from ... .46 Neuroscience of Morality and 9.85 Infant and Child Development. The two offerings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  you use, but at the end of the day you're arguing over degrees of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... such an engineering-focused institution. But I love Boston. And I loved

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  , Italy through MISTI’s (MIT International Science and Technology Initiative ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... York’s JFK airport (where my trans-atlantic flight was leaving from) out

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... estimate, but honestly, I'm sort of over the free t-shirt craze. This is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  technical field. A badge of honor at the Institute, e.g., "Nerd Pride". (2 ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . "Distinguish" can mean "win every math award ever offered by the United States of ... school that offers *any* AP classes. Basically, the goal of the admissions ... Astronomy Observatory, which is an NSF-funded institution and is made up of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  ’t blame MIT; generations of students have survived the Institute so how can ... This post includes an in-depth and personal discussion of the ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  , innovation, and all of science and technology. When the staffer in charge of ... Government Relations Liaison at the American Institute of Physics. With her, we ... . And I’m afraid that on Wednesday, I will find out that all of these

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  there's more to the institute than numbers. The goal of this project is ... culture at MIT. MIT has a lot of students who are creative, self ... . Now, Mark could do a lot of things in a lot of organizations, and all of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012