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  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit ... plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... enroll at MIT. This number is a record-high, and toward the upper bound of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  stumbled into this opportunity by accident when scrambling for a summer UROP ... if I wanted to join a teaching innovative that he founded. Big Dreams ... be used to maximize happiness, called Gale-Shapley. Here is a picture

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... will conflict. That is a far cry from the "reading period" of one day we ... get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  , truthfully doing. Because I have come to a realization. We spend every single ... take place, we never make it a priority to sit down and really understand how a person is doing. “How are you” is asked quickly and instinctively

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my ... applies to watching a terrible movie for my film class. tell my friends ... sets a precedent for letting them know that they can visit me. ask my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a ... before, and you can see a more complete history here, but I thought it'd be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  summary: I am taking 6 classes for a total of 69 units of credit (courses ... .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... hall on campus, 26-100, with a capacity of 566. But it isn’t even the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A ... ;   Yesterday, the Class of 2020 responded with a hacked eye-chart of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... just ask that you try to have a little patience.  

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public: The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), a ... were at ISEF to a little reception. While some people had to stay with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... classes and were so excited to see that there was a mugs class - MUGS!! I ... there and then at the small hispter-esqe coffee shop, took a journey to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every ... is the Harvard Bridge. Many MIT students live in Boston, whether in a ... , and as such have to cross the bridge every day to get to campus. A lot

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

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  research opportunities are available? In preparation for a visit program, I ... and a bit chaotic, but several things were happening at once: my meeting with Ed, one of the instructors, a transfer student was getting advice on

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... , learn about their lives, fall in love with many, but can only choose a few ... 've admitted a class of students, we begin to court them once more. Shiny tubes

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... faces, drained of their usual cheer, widened by shock. "A plane crashed ... realize that the news was playing on the radio. We pulled up a news site on

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other ... the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post ... 's lives were lost or injured yesterday. Here's a picture I took of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a ... graduate with a major in Architecture and minor in management. Last

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013