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• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  outreach is by the raw number of applicants, even if it isn't a good metric ... Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the Ivy ... -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across ... of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every ... like the hosts of a party trying to get people out at 3am: You don’t have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make ... [annotation note="To send an email out to all of the dorm mailing lists on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  . Unfortunately, the limitations of the IPEDS data does not allow us to report on ... ’s decision in the SFFA case had on the composition of the Class of 2028, why it ... means to me, both because I am ultimately responsible for the makeup of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of ... happy to find out the current state of the Institvte. (They all say hi

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever ... me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... alarm shatters the sweet silence of my 4-hour slumber, but I use ninja

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly ... diverse class that reflects the values and goals of your institution. For a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  snack stop and a few address mishaps later, we were in the backyard of a ... ’t matter now.  I spent a good portion of time trying to find the perfect ... against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  the ones at the beginning of YouTube videos but it does block all the ... , I've filtered out the ones that I've found the most helpful. Here's a list of programs (not including the ones you get from MIT for free) that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... each of you is looking to find colleges where you feel you can spend the next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  had the distinct privilege of chatting with her last week and we had a ... social robots lab. And some of the projects I did there involved computer ... called the Perpetual Line-Up, which talks about unregulated use of facial

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  intergalactic radio broadcast. However, following the release of admissions ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action ... decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  dialogue upon the introduction of Ben Kenobi. BEN: Good morning! LUKE: What ... DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... know some people who haven't seen any of the films at all. According to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  goal was to finish the hunt, and we still had a good amount of time left ... .[/annotation] Shuli: Pretty quickly we amassed a good number of people working on the ... THEME “Who is John Galt?”… which was the entire text of Atlas Shrugged and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality ... their adamantine purity despite the passage of time. As Diana Henderson

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent at 5 PM Eastern ... you weren't one of those students whom we admitted, I wish you the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the ... on campus. Ask all the questions and address all the worries you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... , despite the fact that there was definitely a layer of snow on the ground ... Section 2.12 of the Rules of the Faculty, no classes or tests can be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of ... the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction of cod. "Our data highlight the societal consequences of an ongoing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... 't come out of it. That's not really a terrible thing, except that with the ... involved no playing of instruments at all, but it was cool... I'm the new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005