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• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day ... been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... ambitions, because that's what usually happens. I know a lot of people were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  Hello party people!  I know. November 1 is looming and you are ... today, I've been helping answer your calls and want you to know that ... , so I'm listing the most common questions we're getting below. I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . "Sounds good, how do I start the puzzle?" you might ask. Well, if you ... knows? I don't. These puzzles continue to blow my mind. Transcribing ... number, finding hidden QR codes, etc. I never successfully finished one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... research), you should check it out! *Before I started this job, I didn ... who I work with semifrequently as an MIT admissions officer.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take photos during the actual storm (I also thought I’d be fine with a sweater

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  from the applicant. I’m taking tests in January, will these count ... interview report. I sent things in on time, but I don’t see it on MyMIT tracking. What do I do? The Records Office is working hard, but please

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... MIT evening is like, and I will not be able to tell. By “evening” I ... extra time. I doubt anyone will volunteer to repeat the procedure soon

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  from the applicant. I’m taking tests in January, will these count ... interview report. I sent things in on time, but I don’t see it on MyMIT tracking. What do I do? The Records Office is working hard, but please

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  . '16 and Jake I. '16 Garden Salad by Me! Strawberry Salad by ... - normally :O - and I think he really enjoyed our celebration and the cake! And Chris Peterson was there!! I invited him to hang out with the crazy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  Hi! I’m Brenna Heintz, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT. Now that I’ve finally emerged from my first season of reading applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... admissions statistics once they're compiled. This year I can tell you that

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  . You have plenty of time to do this and I think you’ll find the ... coming weeks with more tips and advice. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you when I’m in Florida later this month and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received ... able to tell you more about their own personal stories, which I assure you are more interesting, compelling, and better written than anything I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  , to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few foreign words I learned were more novelties than anything else. But now

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Get to know Tim the Beaver! Tim shows off some moves at an MIT men's ice hockey game

  

  While browsing the internet, I stumbled across this video. While spectators waited patiently for the Zamboni to finish during a men's ice hockey team against Harvard this past season (we won, 5-3 :), Tim the Beaver

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  something I thought we’d been pretty clear about. Mollie blogged about it back ... , that “alumni relations” are “not considered.” And I can tell you, from ... from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  activities go, I'm usually only concerned with some subset of these activities ... .k.a. Write Your Own A.I. For A Game Of Heavily Bytecode-Limited Starcraft 6 ... to give jobs to. I've spent the past two IAPs doing internships for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012