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• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so ... majoring in is one of many things that we consider in the process. We know ... 't allow your high school career be overwhelmed by the goal of college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  accomplished, and by all that you aspire to do as your lives progress. For all of ... colleagues are as inspired by your applications as I am. Regardless of how your ... stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  will share The Gift I’ve had on replay for a couple of weeks: Bigger by ... introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... beloved members of my living group who have now [annotation note="I miss you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  world around us, created by a different wiring and development of the ... stems from difficulty processing the auditory, not visual, information of ... connections at the expense of weaknesses in processing fine details,” says

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  out the change of major form by putting in your student information ... by all sorts of students. 8) Make a couple copies of this form (in case ... Bonus: Breathe a sigh of relief because this process is over/almost over

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  can make up for it by eating a lot of beans and eggs (and sometimes fake ... I could just put on a sweater instead of wasting the energy. But ... , maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  a blogger favorite! taught by junot díaz. lots of work--but has ... quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an ... share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  by the consequence of a natural disaster, but rather that the place of ... For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 ... Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... -catching, professional, and seem as if they were made by someone who isn't the person giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  and since—that start-of-college-90-mph energy has reduced substantially ... Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least not for anyone who participated. That hurt for a couple of days—"If I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  ." Each presentation was seven minutes long followed by four minutes of Q ... . If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140 ... really did embody the spirit of this year's theme. A super quirky band

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  the site is translated by bilingual volunteers, but many nuances of the ... procrastinate and let you know how my summer turned out. Did most of my diet consist of Doritos? Will the effects of eating so many Doritos have a long

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... be selected in total by the end of the RA round. You may not submit ... 's Regular Action (RA) admissions blogger selection process, Matt and I have

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  understand!) A graph is just a set of vertices connected by edges. You can ... paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0507456, he is in the process of ... week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  , reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the ... students of 1885-1895 and the MIT students of today. By 1895, 38 States, 1 ... the youngest of the family which has been brought into being by the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  examples of what I'm talking about. 1. Identify a question I begin by ... myself in the past: What do my work patterns look like? Confusion, by ... what kind of data would be helpful to answering your question. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Class of 2012 guestbook and an update on The Tubes.

  

  As of yesterday, all 522 admitted students can log into MyMIT for the Class of 2012 guestbook directory (post your picture!). Also, all of the decision letters -- including the famed "tubes" -- were mailed yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  so well. By the end of the program, our individual team would have to ... As many of you know, I've been completing a seven week internship ... you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020