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Open Thread: Deferred Early
If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were ... , here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
unfortunately accepting everyone just isn’t an option. If your decision was deferred, take solace in knowing that we will reconsider your application anew, and without prejudice, in Regular Action. Also, remember that this -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university
but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... running out of space here in admissions, so I think I am going to start a ... This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech -
Blog / Academics & Research
It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.
important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... 'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields ... -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…
've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she ... those things - and a Truman Scholar as well! I got a chance to interview ... 'll love her :) p.s. a huge shout-out to Jeanne '13 who once again -
Blog / Admissions
Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...
It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and ... have been nice to have been playing outside in the snow with them -
Blog / Events
Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.
'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
) was able to immerse himself wholeheartedly in a research curriculum; early on, the perspectives he gained convinced him to consider a career in ... university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me
language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... country in Africa they are actually from. None of us knew what it means to -
Blog / Public Service & Activism
On election day Practicing an applied civic education
live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus, the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
data justice for senior house
freshmen from living in senior house; and second, to institute a "turnaround team" dedicated to helping senior house "become a healthier community ... the admissions blogs have always been a platform for students to speak -
Blog / Admissions
The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?
a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One -
Blog / Hacks
C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.
a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don ... This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a -
Blog / Events
Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!
conventional solar concentrators. Professor Baldo is a principal investigator in ... in, 2002, he has worked on fundamental improvements to the efficiency ... turbine pumps water out of a storage volume anchored to the seabed. ORES -
Blog / Hacks
Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…
symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating -
Blog / Academics & Research
Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?
finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day). Here's when you know it's time to go to bed. Roommate Jon: "Did you get ... Mathematica could do it." Jon: "I know, the same thing happened to me. I think I -
Blog / Uncategorized
ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.
can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would love to hear your comments about ZigZag, so please don't be shy, speak up -
FAQ / Life and culture
Are the Arts active on campus?
degrees in Design and Architecture, and even a minor in Art, Culture and ... at MIT, you don't have to major or minor in the arts to be fully ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in -
Blog / MIT Life
The Final Push Who needs sleep?
the material. I've just woken up from a nap, ran to the store, and am now hidden away to study all night. It's a straight push through till ... This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind