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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  decisions. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT ... you. Again, congratulations to the newest members of the Class of 2022 ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Alley," but to make matters confusing all of the dorm addresses are on ... who have already packed. They get to do this: I am not one of those ... ? I'm still recovering from the shock of having no work to do so I haven

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan ... of lectures entitled “FIREHOSE” (in reference to a popular descriptor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were ... my best but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep track of you ... 're able to see the bigger picture and realize that it's not the end of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my ... ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known). There were many excellent ... loves to binge-watch Avatar: The Last Airbender Paolo A. '21 of Nevada ... CANADA which is exciting perhaps only to me, sits on a hoard of unused

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  amazing example of what MIT alumni can do after MIT, please click here to ... to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture ... . If you're willing to support an amazing example of what MIT alumni can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided ... succumbed to the satisfied murmurs of soup-slurping outside her door and went into the kitchen to enjoy a free dinner. Remarking on the quality of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and ... one of the most anticipated parties of the year, a great MIT tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  This past weekend, thousands of MIT alumni returned to campus to ... actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions. Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  to study. MIT had always kind of been that school for me but since I ... , I was not the most fun person from the months of January to March of ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; Of particular interest to our office are the Class of 2017 ... years, we, as MIT staff, have come to know and work with so many of them ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... grail of "a nice company that will pay for you to go back to grad school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to ... before reaching a level of sci-fi hardcore known only to a select few. Next ... . Ignore any of those "RECORD NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS APPLYING TO

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades ... encourage students to send those types of grades if they have them, because
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... -term freshmen to recent alums returning to regale us with tales of life after

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  delivering my second cup of black coffee to remark, "Are you a grad student? I ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown. A bunch of the ChemE's decided to grow beards as part of a male

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... continuing to grow elsewhere. The idea of flying 6 hours (+/- the 3 hour time ... -stubborn brain, to be honest. I didn't immediately have the "IHTFP" (of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of ... confused anyone. I wasn't trying to give examples of things that got people accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004