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  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  : Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don ... Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out ... . The whole college application process is one of back-and-forth decisions ... what you hear from colleges in the next few weeks, you can and should use

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi ... -related prizes. ----------- In honor of Pi Day, the UA Dining Committee invites

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  . What's up with the international selection? We're still reviewing international applications, in parallel to the selection of domestic applicants ... 'll mail all regular action decisions together at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  without letting the pictures fulfill their purpose? At marching band we devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We ... you're planning to come to MIT you should read up on the cheer before

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beautiful snowfall A nice snowfall today in Boston.

  

  The view outside my apartment window this morning, as I sat down at my desk to read applications. Coming shortly: Questions Omnibus.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  , there's the East Campus housemaster slection committee. And keeping up with what's going on in the UA. And I'm in the Assassins' Guild's ten ... Electric Mayhem. But the biggest time sink of all of these is MASLab, the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Another post from Marilee A note from Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  "Whaaat? The letters were postmarked when?" by Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  , and you've been amazing through the whole thing. I've read every single ... here are the most popular ones: What's the deal with calling on Thursday? We have organized the office to be able to start taking phone calls

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , despite the fact that there was definitely a layer of snow on the ground

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... 're not herded into giant classes like so many moo cows. According to the common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I ... of this afternoon and evening sitting around the lounge, eating pizza, watching DVDs, and generally bemoaning the fact that school has, in fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  's building in the courtyard. I'll take pictures as soon as I replace the batteries in my camera. Rush - REX officially - is seriously one of the best times of the year. This will, of course, be my third - I've had one from

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the ... walked in to find this on the chalkboard:

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  . Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the ... take a picture of yourself, and the people I live with (known ... Mitra and put up a really simple temporary design for the time being. So I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  It's definitely the busiest time of the year for application reading (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new ... reading application files today at the Diesel Cafe, I realized that a woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  camer-AHHHHH! redux

  

  -related blues... so sad. But Amrys, formerly the coolest MIT Admissions Officer ... entry the other day, which I won't steal outright but will link to: a post about the door to my office. Stop by if you're ever in the area!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2004
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... you. Obviously, the greater the distance from your high school studies, the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. During your first semester, most of your program will involve the GIRs, which will lay the ... all of our students are broadly educated in the physical, natural and