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  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
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral ... .) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing ... . Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  architecture that I would like to pursue in my graduate studies. [It] helped ... helped pin-point my area of interest that I wish to pursue in graduate ... been invaluable to my architectural and personal education, and I fully

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2011. We received ... emailed me, "i cannot imagine how difficult comparing 17000 applicants must be...there are actually like, too many good applicants. i weep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  admissions bloggers, or visit MIT's official site for LGBT issues. I remember doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... culture from all that I knew. And it was especially hard to figure out one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  great events to go to. I think everyone should go to one of the many dance ... primary concerns I get from students: 0) How can I do all of this? There ... abstracting biological nanospheres (which I'm almost sure I just made up) is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to ... earliest memories, I'm climbing the steps to where I used to live and heading to the front door, but before I'm halfway there, I trip and skid my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... – but I suppose it’s passable for a just a few days. Thank God there was ... Saturday, but I had to rest on account of (a) the fact I was feeling a bit

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010