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• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... our testing requirement, but more than the 20,075 who applied for entry ... suspended our requirement for the first two years of the pandemic. Ever since

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you ... for the last few days, since the May 1 deadline for admitted students to ... function of our yield rate, which is admissions industry term for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  classes. I don't want to fork over cash for an electric scooter or a bike, neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds for our twice-daily information sessions and tours should start getting quite large (I, for one, really like the larger crowds!). As a result, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  register for classes. Usually, you show up knowing approximately which ... advisor I’ve had for three years, for my last fall registration day meeting. It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  This semester has been weird for me. On one side I am for all intents ... , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... graduating this year I am still on the email list for the year I entered MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has been three months-ish since I got on campus over the summer. For just ... ago when my sister and mom finally got the chance to visit for a weekend

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ^TM, we knew we’d eventually have to solve the issue ourselves. Lucky for us ... order to start the cycle again for sophomore year, we decided to transfer ... ’s rush 3) The newspaper article for the OpenMind::OpenArt Project! 4) A

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... packed and ready for Charleston. The flight was about 2 hours, and from the airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom ... advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... application yet. But don’t worry! We know this may be for reasons out of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when ... and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... .  But for others, it's not so black-and-white.  If you ask them what ... maybe 1" (that's EECS, MechE, and CivilE, for you non-MIT readers). I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  save it for finals week / early action decisions pandemonium as reminder ... for post-graduation opportunities. This means talking to the career ... upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  November 6th, 11:59 PM, for SOME students affected by this weekend's nor ... for several days; in the worst, a week or more. And the Internet will likely lag behind it. While snow, in moderation, is a cause for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  this morning, but check out what the Boston Globe had for its weather forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is ... ! As usual, we will primarily be looking for incoming freshman; however

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... of other classes. For that reason, 21F.702 (Spanish II) and 14.02 (Macroeconomics), two candidates for a fifth class, were not truly feasible. But, I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from ... homemade Jedi costumes for Halloween our junior year. Wes once shot the guy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years, as I'm working at CTD again this year as an RTA for Neuroscience and living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... , and what not to expect. Your host: There's no one standard for ... for you to explore on your own. You may want to talk with your host

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point ... events, I was deprived of my laptop for over 3 weeks. How ridiculous were ... ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company

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