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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  advantage of the opportunities that were available to you, you will be on the ... you might not enjoy doing just to impress the adcoms? Just remember to ... mean, I think I will end up getting one but I just want to make sure I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom ... , inappropriately timed humor, and meme pictures. There will ultimately be a binary outcome to the decision you receive from MIT, and the odds are heavily

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately ... the cantata, the year it was written, the Sunday on which it was to be ... thankful for that. I should also be thankful for the fact that I GO TO MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  What are the deadlines for transfer admission?

  March 17. Please visit the Transfer deadlines & requirements page for
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the ... to all the course content but you do not need to do any work for the ... representation theory part still eludes me the most. I feel like I will need to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end ... ask a girl for a dance to how to enjoy the whipped cream from my sundae ... Etiquette Badge. Another snapshot as to why today was also very important

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  happen is they say no, which is the same result as if you never ask" to be ... into a job application, only to not get the job, that is time and energy ... . So I try to be realistic about the costs of rejection. Dismissing my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  on the waitlist will not be admitted. I hope that you will have another ... this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 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 ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons ... really seem to care about the students and they are willing to do more than ... us to work together as we will when we leave the shelter of a college

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  that i get to be here, doing the things i’m doing. sometimes there are ... leisure. growing up, i always had the sense that the work was supposed to be ... achieving professional success was the only way i was ever going to be happy

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  middle; must be why he's an EC and not an admissions officer. The Part II ... of the box away, trying not to look so that we see the puzzle come ... the picture, hinting just a bit at what will be in the larger picture

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  to know. I HATE THE USPS!!! To be fair, it was not their fault. This ... ? We have organized the office to be able to start taking phone calls ... -253-4791. We will be able to take calls from 9AM until 4PM EST. Please be aware

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  .013 will be different, in that the professor will be engaging, the class less ... that as the lectures go on, the “mass culture” portion will be adequately ... what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  linked to the following letter: Dear Ms. C: I am truly sorry to inform you that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban ... on? Which means that, well, you have to handle the waiting

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  ’s a skill you will have to use for the rest of your life. And I know ... job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  honestly, I admire the people who handle the logistics just as much, if not ... : why would I want to remove cards that give me money? The fact is, you ... 'm not going to lecture on the value of losing.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  producing a final draft that will be sent to be printed. Diego, the visual ... compiled to make one cohesive issue of the Infinite magazine.  Why we joined ... ’s connection to the outside world. One of the directors handled the finances of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  else they will ask you to convert your GPA, and being the intelligent ... going to be smarter than me and I'm going to fail and I AM SO SCARED ... October... if you come in prepared to be the most amazing #1 person at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006