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• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  've made up your mind for sure about whether or not to attend MIT, please let ... to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap ... , and for sure let us know by May 1. An important note: MIT has no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the event.) For dinner, I went to India Quality, in Kenmore Square. After dinner, I hopped on the Boston West SafeRide and went to Zeta Beta

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT. So why then do we ask for this information? Simple - it helps us to understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  going to sleep after them and waking up before them to get all my work ... get to design and manufacture plastic yoyos in this class! Definitely ... class is infamous for taking a lot of time to do the work (but like I said

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for ... the rule “simple enough for a kid to draw”. Certainly you don’t want a ... "mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  for the last few days, since the May 1 deadline for admitted students to ... halls, for example. This year, 78% of the students we admitted chose to ... decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  pictures of them to show everyone. For those of you that don't know, MIT is ... , and as such have to cross the bridge every day to get to campus. A lot ... having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  -dot-com - I get to make silly videos, draw doodles, write my opinions and then ... + Dodgeball = Blodgeball (credit to Emad). And far be it for me to deny an ... everything you've been dying to ask our head honcho to elizabizzle at mit dot

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  everywhere, without ever having to focus. Marshall McLuhan * * * * * for more ... intriguing: data sonification of wikipedia edits - by the world according to ... use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I ... , and help figure it out, or have suggestions for what to do in the future ... head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  documents to the financial aid office by February 15. I haven't forgotten ... hope you can start to relax. I'm still getting some really stressed out ... . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  For the second consecutive year, we have been able to admit students ... to introduce yourself to the rest of your class. And for those of you ... can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2012 Profile Posted 49 states... what's missing? And what are the most popular names?

  

  I know folks love to see the numbers, so we've updated the Freshman Class Profile page for this year's incoming class, the MIT Class of 2012. Check it out! (If you were looking for the Admissions Statistics, just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 21, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  fund analyst to start Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization created to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. ... cousin, Nadia, in math over the internet. By the end of 2006, more
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  few other things you should know. #1: Get to know your host. For the ... ^_^), your host is a great resource to ask for advice about choosing which of ... strong sign MIT is the right place for you. #4: Go to class. No, really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  Stay tuned for an entry on the phenomenal Handel scholar Professor ... of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist ... introduced me to Chris '09, who apparently had been "really looking forward" to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... player has access to the decision made by any other player! Moreover, there

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  very impressive. But I have to admit - sometimes I wish we'd get ... : Dog, it was just okay for me. You want me to keep it real, right ... someone has a little too much wine and gets up on stage and tries to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  spring, it will be time for me to leave MIT and venture out into the real world. So, I've begun to search for the perfect job to excite, challenge ... to college admissions, once you get past the surface differences.) One

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  to really "get" what makes this such a special place. Now, I know such complex concepts may be difficult for him to grasp (after all, truthiness ... Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012