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• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  "expressed interest" in the school, and they try to use that piece of data to ... below). Now, he's returning the favor and coming to visit us this ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  Book home. I set it up in front of my PC, on the desk, and nine times out of ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  National Gallery (East Wing designed by MIT alum I.M. Pei) and maybe the ... kind of letter instead of that portion of the application, just outlining ... material?" I'd say it's best to try to get things in by the beginning of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... important to you and why. They will also talk about what you added to the ... school here, know what it was like and what kind of people and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in ... carefully. 18.404 Theory of Computation I love this course and the lecturer ... The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton ... . J. P. Licks, the ice cream store of choice of many MIT bloggers, for ... something to blog about from the afterlife. 5. Ben, for treating Mitra and me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine in the winter), and I am spending three glorious days of complete ... , I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  trombone in the high school marching band, and they're marching in the Rose Parade on January 2. Watch for the Pickerington band! And maybe watch for me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  I walked through the front door of my local Barnes and Noble today and was immediately confronted by a colossal display for the Twilight ... of the series and stopped reading. "Oh, I hate those books," I say

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  changes), and lpq (to check printer status)). All of the other times I spent ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... from them about the status of my computer tomorrow, but if it costs more

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background. or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  got me with it and I knew I would use it one day. Soooo worth the 365 day wait.   *static---commercial break* Be the life of your ... it was. Smugness crept onto my face as I began thinking of what comical

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  see the numbers on Wednesday night, when Elliott got voted off? Each of the three top contestants received 33.xx% of the votes - statistically it was a 3-way tie. Let's do the math, and please correct me if I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... advice and instructions for deferred students on the blogs soon. ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... have some additional advice and instructions for deferred students on the ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours ... number of subjects—things you always wanted to learn and topics you never ... For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  Since Ben already spilled the beans, I'll confirm that, yes, Adam and ... October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of ... rest of the pool. So basically, all you admissions poohbahs, I'm giving

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT prefer public school or private school?

  MIT receives diverse and interesting applications from students in every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school ... through that context and admit those students who are the best matched with
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  broken record emailing the hall with all kinds of displeasure and ... with the lights off. A cat could be sleeping in one of the stalls, and ... commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  wasted. Since this is on the admissions blog and it is December, some of ... ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022