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  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were admitted ... . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes, we hand all the real ones out, and read all the names of everyone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

    livestream of the graduation ceremonies     Today occasions the 151st Commencement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the next few hours of pomp, circumstance, and Tim Cook, 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where ... ). Then there was midnight. Three of my friends and hall neighbors, M., T

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  Today, the Class of 2018 graduates from MIT.       ... exceptional. The admitted Class of 2018 includes mathematicians and marksmen and ... community, each contributing a set of rare skills and perspectives while

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  Good day! One of the many unique and altogether unavoidable aspects of MIT life is the mailing list. Mailing lists are powerful tools that allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a ... current feelings to a personified July. Because of my summer class (to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe ... year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year at MIT. I was thinking of doing something similar this year - but this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  I've just finished assembling and sealing hundreds of packages with the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool ... repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA ... Institute where they sequenced part of the human genome. - we walked

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  (and Ben and Nance) been? Reading applications. Lots and lots of ... 'm really enjoying this year's applications; I know that we have a lot of ... 's been lots of other exciting news, including the production of the first 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this have been written before by bloggers of yore, and I encourage you to read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  As an Urban Studies and Planning major, you can fulfill some of your ... city planners and conduct research on the topics of their choice. These topics are compared and contrasted with characteristics of a U.S. city

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my humble opinion, the world is comprised of two types of students. Student

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. During this time ... from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of ... parlance as the "yield") of over 74 percent, which left very little

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013... Jonte '13 ... 2009 graduate of Franklin County High School, is one of 12 students ... of Technology (MIT) this fall, where he will major in civil or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire ... process. We don't advise any student what their chances of admission may be
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... on the harsh overhead lights of an interrogation room, illuminating a lone blogger; perhaps a meat hook swings out of focus as we pan across

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014