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• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... uncertainty around yield, we decided to significantly increase the size of our ... Tomorrow, I expect MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, will publish

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it ... reading this know which classroom this is?). I love that the chalkboard isn ... winning the Nobel Prize is that his thesis advisor when he was an MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of things to blog about most will have to wait. But this couldn't. John Chow, who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for many of MIT's underrepresented minority students. OME's mission is to ... society. Matriculation to one of the world’s top schools of science and
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  -wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki-forever fresh" Brian: "The answer is shynonymush." Chandra: "I'm reading photon jokes..." Brian: "The answer is SPEED OF LIGHT. Can I spell that? S ... Soon I'll be posting some photos and such from the hunt, but for now

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  East side of the park, along 5th Avenue. The park is rectangle that is 0 ... On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show ... for the student rush tickets -- thanks, guys! I have weakly

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple ... their reasons for visiting Boston, and it turns out the wife is running the marathon as well. Her husband is meeting her at the 13 mile mark

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say ... quite a lot, and I have three finals in the next two days. Blah. Oh, how I ... appears to be broken, which makes me sad, especially since I had cute

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many music choices! That is all. Time to study for my test.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can transfer applicants submit supplemental materials?

  There is no expectation for you to submit additional documents beyond the required application. For transfer applicants, we accept a maximum of two additional supplemental letters of recommendation from teachers
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  to check out the view from up there. Nice work on ZigZag to producer ... Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include Commencement and MIDAS (a.k.a. the party button). Check it out. Marsha Bolton

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life ... were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... With a record number of applications, this year was once again the ... applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... With a 17% increase in applications, this year was once again the ... applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not admitted

  

  This year was the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting fewer than 13% of applicants means we had to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a ... struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to ... to take that opportunity away from prefrosh. What they forget is that

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and ... green if the sun is up, ginger turmeric if not. i've been reading and ... . i've been reading the handmaid's tale to go with the tea. i've been

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... consuming as it is awesome, so I've spent most of the last week staring at ... the lab and shown it to a TA, I have a day's break where I won't go into

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008