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

  

  international students saw a marked increase. There were 3,086 international applications, up 12% from last year. To keep to MIT's international student quota of 8% of the class, we admitted 121 international students. In total

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever ... .426 final project, 3) presenting this final project at a showcase, and 4) writing a 2-page reflection for 17S.914. But these things can wait. Right

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  an advertisement for Fall Career Fair on the back page. That means an ... post!). But as always, everything at MIT seems to runs on its own ... semester, I set up an appointment at the GECD office for a résumé critique

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  released approximately once per semester. Each issue features full-page photo [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine ... span multiple pages."]spreads[/annotation] and articles that are unified

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... , clutched McCann's books and marveled at the Church’s magnificent interior

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  me blabbering on in plain text for pages. Sorry about that. Something ... through the city at the latest we'd ever been out here - we've been making a ... of people here don't have electricity at night - or at all, so even

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to ... miss the bus at this point. It takes 35 minutes to get to South Station

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  to Pakistan for a month, and I interned at Amnesty International for a short while. For the most part, though, I stayed at home, reading and ... people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  From Star Simpson '10: Nando Paniagua '10 manually created this database of housing info for at least half (so far) of the class of 2010, so ... ! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national ... the next best thing is the webcast, live today at 2pm Eastern Daylight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  challenging coursework available to you at your high school, treating both AP ... activities on our What to do in high school page.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW ... by comic book writing, now by this) and I'm able to look at media ... bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this ... -black color at a time, ostensibly to show everyone I was hardcore but secretly ... pressing leaves between the pages. I was always late, especially to first

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  Published: October 1, 2009 At M.I.T., from left, Paul Baranay, Jess Kim and ... York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a ... when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... your MyMIT Tracking page, http://my.mit.edu. Complete your MIT Midyear ... admission (thus, RA applicants -- including international students -- and EA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  international students?" Please see above. ------------------------------------- Am wrote: "I was admitted early and definitely plan on going. At what ... should aim to keep your grades at or near the level they were when you were

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  January is IAP (Independent Activities Period) here at MIT ... homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  binary to hex code that also just so happens to be a URL, writing Python

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you ... contemplate yelling "LSC!" but realize that would be kind of rude at this ... flash photography is permitted. This rule is stated at almost the exact

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008